Reduced Feedback Designs for SDMA-OFDMA Systems

IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2009; Dresden; Germany; 14 June 2009 through 18 June 2009In SDMA-OFDMA wireless communication systems, the feedback load increases with the number of users, subcarriers and antennas in the cell. In this paper, we propose two efficient reduced feedback algorithms by selecting the clusters at the user side. For each cluster, we select the users according to their norm and their orthogonality. We evaluate the performance of the user selection algorithms considering the quantization effect. We also design a specific codebook design to quantize CSI for the proposed criterion

Transmit Beamforming with Reduced Channel Information in OFDM Based Wireless Systems

In this paper, we consider transmit beamforming that works with reduced channel state information in OFDM based multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless systems. The proposed scheme significantly reduces the amount of feedback signaling burden by generating beamforming weights using information on the previous beamforming weights and channel correlation. The feedback signaling overhead is further reduced with the use of clustering and interpolation techniques. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms conventional beamforming techniques, while using the same amount of feedback signaling overhead.Seoul R&BD Progra

Cooperative Precoding with Limited Feedback for MIMO Interference Channels

Multi-antenna precoding effectively mitigates the interference in wireless networks. However, the resultant performance gains can be significantly compromised in practice if the precoder design fails to account for the inaccuracy in the channel state information (CSI) feedback. This paper addresses this issue by considering finite-rate CSI feedback from receivers to their interfering transmitters in the two-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel, called cooperative feedback, and proposing a systematic method for designing transceivers comprising linear precoders and equalizers. Specifically, each precoder/equalizer is decomposed into inner and outer components for nulling the cross-link interference and achieving array gain, respectively. The inner precoders/equalizers are further optimized to suppress the residual interference resulting from finite-rate cooperative feedback. Further- more, the residual interference is regulated by additional scalar cooperative feedback signals that are designed to control transmission power using different criteria including fixed interference margin and maximum sum throughput. Finally, the required number of cooperative precoder feedback bits is derived for limiting the throughput loss due to precoder quantization.Comment: 23 pages; 5 figures; this work was presented in part at Asilomar 2011 and will appear in IEEE Trans. on Wireless Com

Precise-Orientation-Beamforming Scheme for Wireless Communications between Buoys

Utilizing wireless sensor network (WSN) to monitor the marine environment is one of the major techniques in oceanographic monitoring, and how to increase the limited communication distance between the buoys in WSN has become a hot research issue. In this paper, a new technique called precise-orientation-beamforming (POB) which uses the beamforming algorithm to increase the communication distance between buoys is presented. As was widely applied in the radar and sonar, the beamforming method was not used to extend the communication distance between buoys so far. The POB method overcomes the unstable position of buoys caused by waves by implementing the orientation filter. The whole process includes two steps: First, the real-time attitude of the antenna array is calculated by the orientation filter. With the known relative direction of the destination node to the antenna array, the second step is to control phased array antenna beamforming parameters, directing the beam at the destination node. The POB scheme has been simulated under the condition of regular waves. The results reveal that POB provides significant power gains and improves the distance between two communicating nodes effectively