56 research outputs found
Energy-Efficient Power Control in Cell-Free and User-Centric Massive MIMO at Millimeter Wave
In a cell-free massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed
access points simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile
stations; a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric approach,
wherein each access point just serves a reduced set of mobile stations. This
paper introduces and analyzes the cell-free and user-centric architectures at
millimeter wave frequencies, considering a training-based channel estimation
phase, and the downlink and uplink data transmission phases. First of all, a
multiuser clustered millimeter wave channel model is introduced in order to
account for the correlation among the channels of nearby users; second, an
uplink multiuser channel estimation scheme is described along with
low-complexity hybrid analog/digital beamforming architectures. Third, the
non-convex problem of power allocation for downlink global energy efficiency
maximization is addressed. Interestingly, in the proposed schemes no channel
estimation is needed at the mobile stations, and the beamforming schemes used
at the mobile stations are channel-independent and have a very simple
structure. Numerical results show the benefits granted by the power control
procedure, that the considered architectures are effective, and permit
assessing the loss incurred by the use of the hybrid beamformers and by the
channel estimation errors.Comment: To appear on the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and
Networking; originally submitted on April 24, 2018 and finally accepted for
publication on March 24, 201
Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting Surface (STARS) for Terahertz Communications
A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (STARS) aided terahertz
(THz) communication system is proposed. A novel power consumption model is
proposed that depends on the type and resolution of the STARS elements. The
spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) are maximized in both
narrowband and wideband THz systems by jointly optimizing the hybrid
beamforming at the base station (BS) and the passive beamforming at the STARS.
1) For narrowband systems, independent phase-shift STARSs are investigated
first. The resulting complex joint optimization problem is decoupled into a
series of subproblems using penalty dual decomposition. Low-complexity
element-wise algorithms are proposed to optimize the analog beamforming at the
BS and the passive beamforming at the STARS. The proposed algorithm is then
extended to the case of coupled phase-shift STARS. 2) For wideband systems, the
spatial wideband effect at the BS and STARS leads to significant performance
degradation due to the beam split issue. To address this, true time delayers
(TTDs) are introduced into the conventional hybrid beamforming structure for
facilitating wideband beamforming. An iterative algorithm based on the
quasi-Newton method is proposed to design the coefficients of the TTDs.
Finally, our numerical results confirm the superiority of the STARS over the
conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). It is also revealed that
i) there is only a slight performance loss in terms of SE and EE caused by
coupled phase shifts of the STARS in both narrowband and wideband systems, and
ii) the conventional hybrid beamforming achieves comparable SE performance and
much higher EE performance compared with the full-digital beamforming in
narrowband systems but not in wideband systems, where the TTD-based hybrid
beamforming is required for mitigating wideband beam split.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figure
Index Modulation Techniques for Energy-efficient Transmission in Large-scale MIMO Systems
This thesis exploits index modulation techniques to design energy- and spectrum-efficient system models to operate in future wireless networks. In this respect, index modulation techniques are studied considering two different media: mapping the information onto the frequency indices of multicarrier systems, and onto the antenna array indices of a platform that comprises multiple antennas.
The index modulation techniques in wideband communication scenarios considering orthogonal and generalized frequency division multiplexing systems are studied first. Single cell multiuser networks are considered while developing the system models that exploit the index modulation on the subcarriers of the multicarrier systems. Instead of actively modulating all the subcarriers, a subset is selected according to the index modulation bits. As a result, there are subcarriers that remain idle during the data transmission phase and the activation pattern of the subcarriers convey additional information.
The transceivers for the orthogonal and generalized frequency division multiplexing systems with index modulation are both designed considering the uplink and downlink transmission phases with a linear combiner and precoder in order to reduce the system complexity. In the developed system models, channel state information is required only at the base station. The linear combiner is designed adopting minimum mean square error method to mitigate the inter-user-interference. The proposed system models offer a flexible design as the parameters are independent of each other. The parameters can be adjusted to design the system in favor of the energy efficiency, spectrum efficiency, peak-to-average power ratio, or error performance.
Then, the index modulation techniques are studied for large-scale multiple-input multiple-output systems that operate in millimeter wave bands. In order to overcome the drawbacks of transmission in millimeter wave frequencies, channel properties should be taken in to account while envisaging the wireless communication network. The large-scale multiple-input multiple-output systems increase the degrees of freedom in the spatial domain. This feature can be exploited to focus the transmit power directly onto the intended receiver terminal to cope with the severe path-loss. However, scaling up the number of hardware elements results in excessive power consumption. Hybrid architectures provide a remedy by shifting a part of the signal processing to the analog domain. In this way, the number of bulky and high power consuming hardware elements can be reduced. However, there will be a performance degradation as a consequence of renouncing the fully digital signal processing. Index modulation techniques can be combined with the hybrid system architecture to compensate the loss in spectrum efficiency to further increase the data rates.
A user terminal architecture is designed that employs analog beamforming together with spatial modulation where a part of the information bits is mapped onto the indices of the antenna arrays. The system is comprised a switching stage that allocates the user terminal antennas on the phase shifter groups to minimize the spatial correlation, and a phase shifting stage that maximizes the beamforming gain to combat the path-loss. A computationally efficient optimization algorithm is developed to configure the system. The flexibility of the architecture enables optimization of the hybrid transceiver at any signal-to-noise ratio values.
A base station is designed in which hybrid beamforming together with spatial modulation is employed. The analog beamformer is designed to point the transmit beam only in the direction of the intended user terminal to mitigate leakage of the transmit power to other directions. The analog beamformer to transmit the signal is chosen based on the spatial modulation bits. The digital precoder is designed to eliminate the inter-user-interference by exploiting the zero-forcing method. The base station computes the hybrid beamformers and the digital combiners, and only feeds back the digital combiners of each antenna array-user pair to the related user terminals. Thus, a low complexity user architecture is sufficient to achieve a higher performance. The developed optimization framework for the energy efficiency jointly optimizes the number of served users and the total transmit power by utilizing the derived upper bound of the achievable rate. The proposed transceiver architectures provide a more energy-efficient system model compared to the hybrid systems in which the spatial modulation technique is not exploited.
This thesis develops low-complexity system models that operate in narrowband and wideband channel environments to meet the energy and spectrum efficiency demands of future wireless networks. It is corroborated in the thesis that adopting index modulation techniques both in the systems improves the system performance in various aspects.:1 Introduction 1
1.1 Motivation 1
1.2 Overview and Contribution 2
1.3 Outline 9
2 Preliminaries and Fundamentals 13
2.1 Multicarrier Systems 13
2.2 Large-scale Multiple Input Multiple Output Systems 17
2.3 Index Modulation Techniques 19
2.4 Single Cell Multiuser Networks 22
3 Multicarrier Systems with Index Modulation 27
3.1 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing 28
3.2 Generalized Frequency Division Multiplexing 40
3.3 Summary 52
4 Hybrid Beamforming with Spatial Modulation 55
4.1 Uplink Transmission 56
4.2 Downlink Transmission 74
4.3 Summary 106
5 Conclusion and Outlook 109
5.1 Conclusion 109
5.2 Outlook 111
A Quantization Error Derivations 113
B On the Achievable Rate of Gaussian Mixtures 115
B.1 The Conditional Density Function 115
B.2 Tight Bounds on the Differential Entropy 116
B.3 A Bound on the Achievable Rate 118
C Multiuser MIMO Downlink without Spatial Modulation 121
Bibliograph
Energy Efficiency in Hybrid Beamforming Large-scale mmWave Multiuser MIMO with Spatial Modulation
The problem of radio resource allocation for global
energy efficiency (GEE) maximization in mmWaves large-scale
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems using hybridbeamforming
with spatial modulation is addressed. The theoretical
properties of the optimization problem at hand are
analyzed and two provably convergent optimization algorithms
with affordable complexity are proposed. The former achieves
the global optimum, while the latter trades off optimality with a
lower computational complexity. Nevertheless, numerical results
show that both algorithms attain global optimality in practical
scenarios
A survey on hybrid beamforming techniques in 5G : architecture and system model perspectives
The increasing wireless data traffic demands have driven the need to explore suitable spectrum regions for meeting the projected requirements. In the light of this, millimeter wave (mmWave) communication has received considerable attention from the research community. Typically, in fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, mmWave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications is realized by the hybrid transceivers which combine high dimensional analog phase shifters and power amplifiers with lower-dimensional digital signal processing units. This hybrid beamforming design reduces the cost and power consumption which is aligned with an energy-efficient design vision of 5G. In this paper, we track the progress in hybrid beamforming for massive MIMO communications in the context of system models of the hybrid transceivers' structures, the digital and analog beamforming matrices with the possible antenna configuration scenarios and the hybrid beamforming in heterogeneous wireless networks. We extend the scope of the discussion by including resource management issues in hybrid beamforming. We explore the suitability of hybrid beamforming methods, both, existing and proposed till first quarter of 2017, and identify the exciting future challenges in this domain
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