2,963 research outputs found
Multi-Cell Random Beamforming: Achievable Rate and Degrees of Freedom Region
Random beamforming (RBF) is a practically favourable transmission scheme for
multiuser multi-antenna downlink systems since it requires only partial channel
state information (CSI) at the transmitter. Under the conventional single-cell
setup, RBF is known to achieve the optimal sum-capacity scaling law as the
number of users goes to infinity, thanks to the multiuser diversity enabled
transmission scheduling that virtually eliminates the intra-cell interference.
In this paper, we extend the study of RBF to a more practical multi-cell
downlink system with single-antenna receivers subject to the additional
inter-cell interference (ICI). First, we consider the case of finite
signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at each receiver. We derive a closed-form
expression of the achievable sum-rate with the multi-cell RBF, based upon which
we show an asymptotic sum-rate scaling law as the number of users goes to
infinity. Next, we consider the high-SNR regime and for tractable analysis
assume that the number of users in each cell scales in a certain order with the
per-cell SNR. Under this setup, we characterize the achievable degrees of
freedom (DoF) for the single-cell case with RBF. Then we extend the analysis to
the multi-cell RBF case by characterizing the DoF region. It is shown that the
DoF region characterization provides useful guideline on how to design a
cooperative multi-cell RBF system to achieve optimal throughput tradeoffs among
different cells. Furthermore, our results reveal that the multi-cell RBF scheme
achieves the "interference-free DoF" region upper bound for the multi-cell
system, provided that the per-cell number of users has a sufficiently large
scaling order with the SNR. Our result thus confirms the optimality of
multi-cell RBF in this regime even without the complete CSI at the transmitter,
as compared to other full-CSI requiring transmission schemes such as
interference alignment.Comment: 28 pages, 6 figures, to appear in IEEE Transactions of Signal
Processing. This work was presented in part at IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March
25-30, 2012. The authors are with the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, National University of Singapore (emails: {hieudn, elezhang,
elehht}@nus.edu.sg
Resource Allocation for Outdoor-to-Indoor Multicarrier Transmission with Shared UE-side Distributed Antenna Systems
In this paper, we study the resource allocation algorithm design for downlink
multicarrier transmission with a shared user equipment (UE)-side distributed
antenna system (SUDAS) which utilizes both licensed and unlicensed frequency
bands for improving the system throughput. The joint UE selection and
transceiver processing matrix design is formulated as a non-convex optimization
problem for the maximization of the end-to-end system throughput (bits/s). In
order to obtain a tractable resource allocation algorithm, we first show that
the optimal transmitter precoding and receiver post-processing matrices jointly
diagonalize the end-to-end communication channel. Subsequently, the
optimization problem is converted to a scalar optimization problem for multiple
parallel channels, which is solved by using an asymptotically optimal iterative
algorithm. Simulation results illustrate that the proposed resource allocation
algorithm for the SUDAS achieves an excellent system performance and provides a
spatial multiplexing gain for single-antenna UEs.Comment: accepted for publication at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
(VTC) Spring, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, May 201
Resource allocation for transmit hybrid beamforming in decoupled millimeter wave multiuser-MIMO downlink
This paper presents a study on joint radio resource allocation and hybrid precoding in multicarrier massive multiple-input multiple-output communications for 5G cellular networks. In this paper, we present the resource allocation algorithm to maximize the proportional fairness (PF) spectral efficiency under the per subchannel power and the beamforming rank constraints. Two heuristic algorithms are designed. The proportional fairness hybrid beamforming algorithm provides the transmit precoder with a proportional fair spectral efficiency among users for the desired number of radio-frequency (RF) chains. Then, we transform the number of RF chains or rank constrained optimization problem into convex semidefinite programming (SDP) problem, which can be solved by standard techniques. Inspired by the formulated convex SDP problem, a low-complexity, two-step, PF-relaxed optimization algorithm has been provided for the formulated convex optimization problem. Simulation results show that the proposed suboptimal solution to the relaxed optimization problem is near-optimal for the signal-to-noise ratio SNR <= 10 dB and has a performance gap not greater than 2.33 b/s/Hz within the SNR range 0-25 dB. It also outperforms the maximum throughput and PF-based hybrid beamforming schemes for sum spectral efficiency, individual spectral efficiency, and fairness index
AirSync: Enabling Distributed Multiuser MIMO with Full Spatial Multiplexing
The enormous success of advanced wireless devices is pushing the demand for
higher wireless data rates. Denser spectrum reuse through the deployment of
more access points per square mile has the potential to successfully meet the
increasing demand for more bandwidth. In theory, the best approach to density
increase is via distributed multiuser MIMO, where several access points are
connected to a central server and operate as a large distributed multi-antenna
access point, ensuring that all transmitted signal power serves the purpose of
data transmission, rather than creating "interference." In practice, while
enterprise networks offer a natural setup in which distributed MIMO might be
possible, there are serious implementation difficulties, the primary one being
the need to eliminate phase and timing offsets between the jointly coordinated
access points.
In this paper we propose AirSync, a novel scheme which provides not only time
but also phase synchronization, thus enabling distributed MIMO with full
spatial multiplexing gains. AirSync locks the phase of all access points using
a common reference broadcasted over the air in conjunction with a Kalman filter
which closely tracks the phase drift. We have implemented AirSync as a digital
circuit in the FPGA of the WARP radio platform. Our experimental testbed,
comprised of two access points and two clients, shows that AirSync is able to
achieve phase synchronization within a few degrees, and allows the system to
nearly achieve the theoretical optimal multiplexing gain. We also discuss MAC
and higher layer aspects of a practical deployment. To the best of our
knowledge, AirSync offers the first ever realization of the full multiuser MIMO
gain, namely the ability to increase the number of wireless clients linearly
with the number of jointly coordinated access points, without reducing the per
client rate.Comment: Submitted to Transactions on Networkin
- …