232 research outputs found
Large-Scale MIMO Detection for 3GPP LTE: Algorithms and FPGA Implementations
Large-scale (or massive) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is expected to
be one of the key technologies in next-generation multi-user cellular systems,
based on the upcoming 3GPP LTE Release 12 standard, for example. In this work,
we propose - to the best of our knowledge - the first VLSI design enabling
high-throughput data detection in single-carrier frequency-division multiple
access (SC-FDMA)-based large-scale MIMO systems. We propose a new approximate
matrix inversion algorithm relying on a Neumann series expansion, which
substantially reduces the complexity of linear data detection. We analyze the
associated error, and we compare its performance and complexity to those of an
exact linear detector. We present corresponding VLSI architectures, which
perform exact and approximate soft-output detection for large-scale MIMO
systems with various antenna/user configurations. Reference implementation
results for a Xilinx Virtex-7 XC7VX980T FPGA show that our designs are able to
achieve more than 600 Mb/s for a 128 antenna, 8 user 3GPP LTE-based large-scale
MIMO system. We finally provide a performance/complexity trade-off comparison
using the presented FPGA designs, which reveals that the detector circuit of
choice is determined by the ratio between BS antennas and users, as well as the
desired error-rate performance.Comment: To appear in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processin
Channel Hardening-Exploiting Message Passing (CHEMP) Receiver in Large-Scale MIMO Systems
In this paper, we propose a MIMO receiver algorithm that exploits {\em
channel hardening} that occurs in large MIMO channels. Channel hardening refers
to the phenomenon where the off-diagonal terms of the matrix
become increasingly weaker compared to the diagonal terms as the size of the
channel gain matrix increases. Specifically, we propose a message
passing detection (MPD) algorithm which works with the real-valued matched
filtered received vector (whose signal term becomes ,
where is the transmitted vector), and uses a Gaussian approximation
on the off-diagonal terms of the matrix. We also propose a
simple estimation scheme which directly obtains an estimate of (instead of an estimate of ), which is used as an effective
channel estimate in the MPD algorithm. We refer to this receiver as the {\em
channel hardening-exploiting message passing (CHEMP)} receiver. The proposed
CHEMP receiver achieves very good performance in large-scale MIMO systems
(e.g., in systems with 16 to 128 uplink users and 128 base station antennas).
For the considered large MIMO settings, the complexity of the proposed MPD
algorithm is almost the same as or less than that of the minimum mean square
error (MMSE) detection. This is because the MPD algorithm does not need a
matrix inversion. It also achieves a significantly better performance compared
to MMSE and other message passing detection algorithms using MMSE estimate of
. We also present a convergence analysis of the proposed MPD
algorithm. Further, we design optimized irregular low density parity check
(LDPC) codes specific to the considered large MIMO channel and the CHEMP
receiver through EXIT chart matching. The LDPC codes thus obtained achieve
improved coded bit error rate performance compared to off-the-shelf irregular
LDPC codes
Sparse Message Passing Based Preamble Estimation for Crowded M2M Communications
Due to the massive number of devices in the M2M communication era, new
challenges have been brought to the existing random-access (RA) mechanism, such
as severe preamble collisions and resource block (RB) wastes. To address these
problems, a novel sparse message passing (SMP) algorithm is proposed, based on
a factor graph on which Bernoulli messages are updated. The SMP enables an
accurate estimation on the activity of the devices and the identity of the
preamble chosen by each active device. Aided by the estimation, the RB
efficiency for the uplink data transmission can be improved, especially among
the collided devices. In addition, an analytical tool is derived to analyze the
iterative evolution and convergence of the SMP algorithm. Finally, numerical
simulations are provided to verify the validity of our analytical results and
the significant improvement of the proposed SMP on estimation error rate even
when preamble collision occurs.Comment: submitted to ICC 2018 with 6 pages and 4 figure
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