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Low-complexity antenna selection techniques for massive MIMO systems
PhD ThesisMassive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (M-MIMO) is a state of the art technology
in wireless communications, where hundreds of antennas are exploited at the base
station (BS) to serve a much smaller number of users. Employing large antenna
arrays can improve the performance dramatically in terms of the achievable rates
and radiated energy, however, it comes at the price of increased cost, complexity,
and power consumption.
To reduce the hardware complexity and cost, while maintaining the advantages of
M-MIMO, antenna selection (AS) techniques can be applied where only a subset of
the available antennas at the BS are selected. Optimal AS can be obtained through
exhaustive search, which is suitable for conventional MIMO systems, but is prohibited
for systems with hundreds of antennas due to its enormous computational
complexity. Therefore, this thesis address the problem of designing low complexity
AS algorithms for multi-user (MU) M-MIMO systems.
In chapter 3, different evolutionary algorithms including bio-inspired, quantuminspired,
and heuristic methods are applied for AS in uplink MU M-MIMO systems.
It was demonstrated that quantum-inspired and heuristic methods outperform
the bio-inspired techniques in terms of both complexity and performance.
In chapter 4, a downlink MU M-MIMO scenario is considered with Matched Filter
(MF) precoding. Two novel AS algorithms are proposed where the antennas are
selected without any vector multiplications, which resulted in a dramatic complexity
reduction. The proposed algorithms outperform the case where all antennas are
activated, in terms of both energy and spectral efficiencies.
In chapter 5, three AS algorithms are designed and utilized to enhance the performance
of cell-edge users, alongside Max-Min power allocation control. The
algorithms aim to either maximize the channel gain, or minimize the interference
for the worst-case user only.
The proposed methods in this thesis are compared with other low complexity AS
schemes and showed a great performance-complexity trade-off