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Enhancing Coexistence in the Unlicensed Band with Massive MIMO
We consider cellular base stations (BSs) equipped with a large number of
antennas and operating in the unlicensed band. We denote such system as massive
MIMO unlicensed (mMIMO-U). We design the key procedures required to guarantee
coexistence between a cellular BS and nearby Wi-Fi devices. These include:
neighboring Wi-Fi channel covariance estimation, allocation of spatial degrees
of freedom for interference suppression, and enhanced channel sensing and data
transmission phases. We evaluate the performance of the so-designed mMIMO-U,
showing that it allows simultaneous cellular and Wi-Fi transmissions by keeping
their mutual interference below the regulatory threshold. The same is not true
for conventional listen-before-talk (LBT) operations. As a result, mMIMO-U
boosts the aggregate cellular-plus-Wi-Fi data rate in the unlicensed band with
respect to conventional LBT, exhibiting increasing gains as the number of BS
antennas grows.Comment: To appear in Proc. IEEE ICC 201
Achieving Large Multiplexing Gain in Distributed Antenna Systems via Cooperation with pCell Technology
In this paper we present pCellTM technology, the first commercial-grade
wireless system that employs cooperation between distributed transceiver
stations to create concurrent data links to multiple users in the same
spectrum. First we analyze the per-user signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio
(SINR) employing a geometrical spatial channel model to define volumes in space
of coherent signal around user antennas (or personal cells, i.e., pCells). Then
we describe the system architecture consisting of a general-purpose-processor
(GPP) based software-defined radio (SDR) wireless platform implementing a
real-time LTE protocol stack to communicate with off-the-shelf LTE devices.
Finally we present experimental results demonstrating up to 16 concurrent
spatial channels for an aggregate average spectral efficiency of 59.3 bps/Hz in
the downlink and 27.5 bps/Hz in the uplink, providing data rates of 200 Mbps
downlink and 25 Mbps uplink in 5 MHz of TDD spectrum.Comment: IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov.
8-11th 2015, Pacific Grove, CA, US
Joint User Scheduling and Power optimization in Full-Duplex Cells with Successive Interference Cancellation
This paper considers a cellular system with a full-duplex base station and
half-duplex users. The base station can activate one user in uplink or downlink
(half-duplex mode), or two different users one in each direction simultaneously
(full-duplex mode). Simultaneous transmissions in uplink and downlink causes
self-interference at the base station and uplink-to-downlink interference at
the downlink user. Although uplink-to-downlink interference is typically
treated as noise, it is shown that successive interference decoding and
cancellation (SIC mode) can lead to significant improvement in network utility,
especially when user distribution is concentrated around a few hotspots. The
proposed temporal fair user scheduling algorithm and corresponding power
optimization utilizes full-duplex and SIC modes as well as half-duplex
transmissions based on their impact on network utility. Simulation results
reveal that the proposed strategy can achieve up to 95% average cell throughput
improvement in typical indoor scenarios with respect to a conventional network
in which the base station is half-duplex.Comment: To be appeared in IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and
Computers, 201
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