361 research outputs found
Downlink Training in Cell-Free Massive MIMO: A Blessing in Disguise
Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) refers to a
distributed Massive MIMO system where all the access points (APs) cooperate to
coherently serve all the user equipments (UEs), suppress inter-cell
interference and mitigate the multiuser interference. Recent works demonstrated
that, unlike co-located Massive MIMO, the \textit{channel hardening} is, in
general, less pronounced in cell-free Massive MIMO, thus there is much to
benefit from estimating the downlink channel. In this study, we investigate the
gain introduced by the downlink beamforming training, extending the previously
proposed analysis to non-orthogonal uplink and downlink pilots. Assuming
single-antenna APs, conjugate beamforming and independent Rayleigh fading
channel, we derive a closed-form expression for the per-user achievable
downlink rate that addresses channel estimation errors and pilot contamination
both at the AP and UE side. The performance evaluation includes max-min
fairness power control, greedy pilot assignment methods, and a comparison
between achievable rates obtained from different capacity-bounding techniques.
Numerical results show that downlink beamforming training, although increases
pilot overhead and introduces additional pilot contamination, improves
significantly the achievable downlink rate. Even for large number of APs, it is
not fully efficient for the UE relying on the statistical channel state
information for data decoding.Comment: Published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications on August
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Achieving "Massive MIMO" Spectral Efficiency with a Not-so-Large Number of Antennas
The main focus and contribution of this paper is a novel network-MIMO TDD
architecture that achieves spectral efficiencies comparable with "Massive
MIMO", with one order of magnitude fewer antennas per active user per cell. The
proposed architecture is based on a family of network-MIMO schemes defined by
small clusters of cooperating base stations, zero-forcing multiuser MIMO
precoding with suitable inter-cluster interference constraints, uplink pilot
signals reuse across cells, and frequency reuse. The key idea consists of
partitioning the users population into geographically determined "bins", such
that all users in the same bin are statistically equivalent, and use the
optimal network-MIMO architecture in the family for each bin. A scheduler takes
care of serving the different bins on the time-frequency slots, in order to
maximize a desired network utility function that captures some desired notion
of fairness. This results in a mixed-mode network-MIMO architecture, where
different schemes, each of which is optimized for the served user bin, are
multiplexed in time-frequency. In order to carry out the performance analysis
and the optimization of the proposed architecture in a clean and
computationally efficient way, we consider the large-system regime where the
number of users, the number of antennas, and the channel coherence block length
go to infinity with fixed ratios. The performance predicted by the large-system
asymptotic analysis matches very well the finite-dimensional simulations.
Overall, the system spectral efficiency obtained by the proposed architecture
is similar to that achieved by "Massive MIMO", with a 10-fold reduction in the
number of antennas at the base stations (roughly, from 500 to 50 antennas).Comment: Full version with appendice (proofs of theorems). A shortened version
without appendice was submitted to IEEE Trans. on Wireless Commun. Appendix B
was revised after submissio
Performance enhancement of maximum ratio transmission in 5G system with multi-user multiple-input multiple-output
The downlink multi-user precoding of the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) method includes optimal channel state information at the base station and a variety of linear precoding (LP) schemes. Maximum ratio transmission (MRT) is among the common precoding schemes but does not provide good performance with massive MIMO, such as high bit error rate (BER) and low throughput. The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and precoding schemes used in 5G have a flaw in high-speed environments. Given that the Doppler effect induces frequency changes, orthogonality between OFDM subcarriers is disrupted and their throughput output is decreased and BER is decreased. This study focuses on solving this problem by improving the performance of a 5G system with MRT, specifically by using a new design that includes weighted overlap and add (WOLA) with MRT. The current research also compares the standard system MRT with OFDM with the proposed design (WOLA-MRT) to find the best performance on throughput and BER. Improved system results show outstanding performance enhancement over a standard system, and numerous improvements with massive MIMO, such as best BER and throughput. Its approximately 60% more throughput than the traditional systems. Lastly, the proposed system improves BER by approximately 2% compared with the traditional system
Reduced Switching Connectivity for Large Scale Antenna Selection
In this paper, we explore reduced-connectivity radio frequency (RF) switching
networks for reducing the analog hardware complexity and switching power losses
in antenna selection (AS) systems. In particular, we analyze different hardware
architectures for implementing the RF switching matrices required in AS designs
with a reduced number of RF chains. We explicitly show that fully-flexible
switching matrices, which facilitate the selection of any possible subset of
antennas and attain the maximum theoretical sum rates of AS, present numerous
drawbacks such as the introduction of significant insertion losses,
particularly pronounced in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
systems. Since these disadvantages make fully-flexible switching suboptimal in
the energy efficiency sense, we further consider partially-connected switching
networks as an alternative switching architecture with reduced hardware
complexity, which we characterize in this work. In this context, we also
analyze the impact of reduced switching connectivity on the analog hardware and
digital signal processing of AS schemes that rely on channel power information.
Overall, the analytical and simulation results shown in this paper demonstrate
that partially-connected switching maximizes the energy efficiency of massive
MIMO systems for a reduced number of RF chains, while fully-flexible switching
offers sub-optimal energy efficiency benefits due to its significant switching
power losses.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figure
Investigation on Evolving Single-Carrier NOMA into Multi-Carrier NOMA in 5G
© 2013 IEEE. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is one promising technology, which provides high system capacity, low latency, and massive connectivity, to address several challenges in the fifth-generation wireless systems. In this paper, we first reveal that the NOMA techniques have evolved from single-carrier NOMA (SC-NOMA) into multi-carrier NOMA (MC-NOMA). Then, we comprehensively investigated on the basic principles, enabling schemes and evaluations of the two most promising MC-NOMA techniques, namely sparse code multiple access (SCMA) and pattern division multiple access (PDMA). Meanwhile, we consider that the research challenges of SCMA and PDMA might be addressed with the stimulation of the advanced and matured progress in SC-NOMA. Finally, yet importantly, we investigate the emerging applications, and point out the future research trends of the MC-NOMA techniques, which could be straightforwardly inspired by the various deployments of SC-NOMA
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