339 research outputs found
Opportunistic Scheduling and Beamforming for MIMO-OFDMA Downlink Systems with Reduced Feedback
Opportunistic scheduling and beamforming schemes with reduced feedback are
proposed for MIMO-OFDMA downlink systems. Unlike the conventional beamforming
schemes in which beamforming is implemented solely by the base station (BS) in
a per-subcarrier fashion, the proposed schemes take advantages of a novel
channel decomposition technique to perform beamforming jointly by the BS and
the mobile terminal (MT). The resulting beamforming schemes allow the BS to
employ only {\em one} beamforming matrix (BFM) to form beams for {\em all}
subcarriers while each MT completes the beamforming task for each subcarrier
locally. Consequently, for a MIMO-OFDMA system with subcarriers, the
proposed opportunistic scheduling and beamforming schemes require only one BFM
index and supportable throughputs to be returned from each MT to the BS, in
contrast to BFM indices and supportable throughputs required by the
conventional schemes. The advantage of the proposed schemes becomes more
evident when a further feedback reduction is achieved by grouping adjacent
subcarriers into exclusive clusters and returning only cluster information from
each MT. Theoretical analysis and computer simulation confirm the effectiveness
of the proposed reduced-feedback schemes.Comment: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on
Communications, Beijing, May 19-23, 200
Opportunistic Scheduling and Beamforming for MIMO-SDMA Downlink Systems with Linear Combining
Opportunistic scheduling and beamforming schemes are proposed for multiuser
MIMO-SDMA downlink systems with linear combining in this work. Signals received
from all antennas of each mobile terminal (MT) are linearly combined to improve
the {\em effective} signal-to-noise-interference ratios (SINRs). By exploiting
limited feedback on the effective SINRs, the base station (BS) schedules
simultaneous data transmission on multiple beams to the MTs with the largest
effective SINRs. Utilizing the extreme value theory, we derive the asymptotic
system throughputs and scaling laws for the proposed scheduling and beamforming
schemes with different linear combining techniques. Computer simulations
confirm that the proposed schemes can substantially improve the system
throughput.Comment: To appear in the Proceedings of the 18th Annual IEEE International
Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC),
Athens, Greece, September 3 - 7, 200
Wireless transmission protocols using relays for broadcast and information exchange channels
Relays have been used to overcome existing network performance bottlenecks in meeting the growing
demand for large bandwidth and high quality of service (QoS) in wireless networks. This thesis
proposes several wireless transmission protocols using relays in practical multi-user broadcast and
information exchange channels. The main theme is to demonstrate that efficient use of relays provides
an additional dimension to improve reliability, throughput, power efficiency and secrecy. First,
a spectrally efficient cooperative transmission protocol is proposed for the multiple-input and singleoutput
(MISO) broadcast channel to improve the reliability of wireless transmission. The proposed
protocol mitigates co-channel interference and provides another dimension to improve the diversity
gain. Analytical and simulation results show that outage probability and the diversity and multiplexing
tradeoff of the proposed cooperative protocol outperforms the non-cooperative scheme. Second,
a two-way relaying protocol is proposed for the multi-pair, two-way relaying channel to improve the
throughput and reliability. The proposed protocol enables both the users and the relay to participate
in interference cancellation. Several beamforming schemes are proposed for the multi-antenna
relay. Analytical and simulation results reveal that the proposed protocol delivers significant improvements
in ergodic capacity, outage probability and the diversity and multiplexing tradeoff if compared
to existing schemes. Third, a joint beamforming and power management scheme is proposed for
multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) two-way relaying channel to improve the sum-rate. Network
power allocation and power control optimisation problems are formulated and solved using
convex optimisation techniques. Simulation results verify that the proposed scheme delivers better
sum-rate or consumes lower power when compared to existing schemes. Fourth, two-way secrecy
schemes which combine one-time pad and wiretap coding are proposed for the scalar broadcast channel
to improve secrecy rate. The proposed schemes utilise the channel reciprocity and employ relays
to forward secret messages. Analytical and simulation results reveal that the proposed schemes are
able to achieve positive secrecy rates even when the number of users is large. All of these new wireless
transmission protocols help to realise better throughput, reliability, power efficiency and secrecy
for wireless broadcast and information exchange channels through the efficient use of relays
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