23 research outputs found
Energy-Efficient Coordinated Multi-Cell Multigroup Multicast Beamforming with Antenna Selection
This paper studies energy-efficient coordinated beamforming in multi-cell
multi-user multigroup multicast multiple-input single-output systems. We aim at
maximizing the network energy efficiency by taking into account the fact that
some of the radio frequency chains can be switched off in order to save power.
We consider the antenna specific maximum power constraints to avoid non-linear
distortion in power amplifiers and user-specific quality of service (QoS)
constraints to guarantee a certain QoS levels. We first introduce binary
antenna selection variables and use the perspective formulation to model the
relation between them and the beamformers. Subsequently, we propose a new
formulation which reduces the feasible set of the continuous relaxation,
resulting in better performance compared to the original perspective
formulation based problem. However, the resulting optimization problem is a
mixed-Boolean non-convex fractional program, which is difficult to solve. We
follow the standard continuous relaxation of the binary antenna selection
variables, and then reformulate the problem such that it is amendable to
successive convex approximation. Thereby, solving the continuous relaxation
mostly results in near-binary solution. To recover the binary variables from
the continuous relaxation, we switch off all the antennas for which the
continuous values are smaller than a small threshold. Numerical results
illustrate the superior convergence result and significant achievable gains in
terms of energy efficiency with the proposed algorithm.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted to IEEE ICC 2017 - International
Workshop on 5G RAN Desig
Energy-efficiency for MISO-OFDMA based user-relay assisted cellular networks
The concept of improving energy-efficiency (EE) without sacrificing the service quality has become important nowadays. The combination of orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) multi-antenna transmission technology and relaying is one of the key technologies to deliver the promise of reliable and high-data-rate coverage in the most cost-effective manner. In this paper, EE is studied for the downlink multiple-input single-output (MISO)-OFDMA based user-relay assisted cellular networks. EE maximization is formulated for decode and forward (DF) relaying scheme with the consideration of both transmit and circuit power consumption as well as the data rate requirements for the mobile users. The quality of-service (QoS)-constrained EE maximization, which is defined for multi-carrier, multi-user, multi-relay and multi-antenna networks, is a non-convex and combinatorial problem so it is hard to tackle. To solve this difficult problem, a radio resource management (RRM) algorithm that solves the subcarrier allocation, mode selection and power allocation separately is proposed. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by numerical results for different system parameter
Energy Efficiency Fairness Beamforming Designs for MISO NOMA Systems
In this paper, we propose two beamforming designs for a multiple-input
single-output non-orthogonal multiple access system considering the energy
efficiency (EE) fairness between users. In particular, two quantitative
fairness-based designs are developed to maintain fairness between the users in
terms of achieved EE: max-min energy efficiency (MMEE) and proportional
fairness (PF) designs. While the MMEE-based design aims to maximize the minimum
EE of the users in the system, the PF-based design aims to seek a good balance
between the global energy efficiency of the system and the EE fairness between
the users. Detailed simulation results indicate that our proposed designs offer
many-fold EE improvements over the existing energy-efficient beamforming
designs.Comment: IEEE WCNC 201
Cooperative Rate-Splitting for Secrecy Sum-Rate Enhancement in Multi-antenna Broadcast Channels
In this paper, we employ Cooperative Rate-Splitting (CRS) technique to
enhance the Secrecy Sum Rate (SSR) for the Multiple Input Single Output (MISO)
Broadcast Channel (BC), consisting of two legitimate users and one
eavesdropper, with perfect Channel State Information (CSI) available at all
nodes. For CRS based on the three-node relay channel, the transmitter splits
and encodes the messages of legitimate users into common and private streams
based on Rate-Splitting (RS). With the goal of maximizing SSR, the proposed CRS
strategy opportunistically asks the relaying legitimate user to forward its
decoded common message. During the transmission, the eavesdropper keeps
wiretapping silently. To ensure secure transmission, the common message is used
for the dual purpose, serving both as a desired message and Artificial Noise
(AN) without consuming extra transmit power comparing to the conventional AN
design. Taking into account the total power constraint and the Physical Layer
(PHY) security, the precoders and time-slot allocation are jointly optimized by
solving the non-convex SSR maximization problem based on Sequential Convex
Approximation (SCA) algorithm. Numerical results show that the proposed CRS
secure transmission scheme outperforms existing Multi-User Linear Precoding
(MU-LP) and Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (C-NOMA) strategies.
Therefore, CRS is a promising strategy to enhance the PHY security in
multi-antenna BC systems
Energy Efficiency of Rate-Splitting Multiple Access, and Performance Benefits over SDMA and NOMA
Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is a general and powerful multiple
access framework for downlink multi-antenna systems, and contains
Space-Division Multiple Access (SDMA) and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)
as special cases. RSMA relies on linearly precoded rate-splitting with
Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) to decode part of the interference
and treat the remaining part of the interference as noise. Recently, RSMA has
been shown to outperform both SDMA and NOMA rate-wise in a wide range of
network loads (underloaded and overloaded regimes) and user deployments (with a
diversity of channel directions, channel strengths and qualities of Channel
State Information at the Transmitter). Moreover, RSMA was shown to provide
spectral efficiency and QoS enhancements over NOMA at a lower computational
complexity for the transmit scheduler and the receivers. In this paper, we
build upon those results and investigate the energy efficiency of RSMA compared
to SDMA and NOMA. Considering a multiple-input single-output broadcast channel,
we show that RSMA is more energy-efficient than SDMA and NOMA in a wide range
of user deployments (with a diversity of channel directions and channel
strengths). We conclude that RSMA is more spectrally and energy-efficient than
SDMA and NOMA.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Energy-efficient precoding in multicell networks with full-duplex base stations
© 2017, The Author(s). This paper considers multi-input multi-output (MIMO) multicell networks, where the base stations (BSs) are full-duplex transceivers, while uplink and downlink users are equipped with multiple antennas and operate in a half-duplex mode. The problem of interest is to design linear precoders for BSs and users to optimize the network’s energy efficiency. Given that the energy efficiency objective is not a ratio of concave and convex functions, the commonly used Dinkelbach-type algorithms are not applicable. We develop a low-complexity path-following algorithm that only invokes one simple convex quadratic program at each iteration, which converges at least to the local optimum. Numerical results demonstrate the performance advantage of our proposed algorithm in terms of energy efficiency
Energy efficiency optimization in MIMO interference channels: A successive pseudoconvex approximation approach
In this paper, we consider the (global and sum) energy efficiency
optimization problem in downlink multi-input multi-output multi-cell systems,
where all users suffer from multi-user interference. This is a challenging
problem due to several reasons: 1) it is a nonconvex fractional programming
problem, 2) the transmission rate functions are characterized by
(complex-valued) transmit covariance matrices, and 3) the processing-related
power consumption may depend on the transmission rate. We tackle this problem
by the successive pseudoconvex approximation approach, and we argue that
pseudoconvex optimization plays a fundamental role in designing novel iterative
algorithms, not only because every locally optimal point of a pseudoconvex
optimization problem is also globally optimal, but also because a descent
direction is easily obtained from every optimal point of a pseudoconvex
optimization problem. The proposed algorithms have the following advantages: 1)
fast convergence as the structure of the original optimization problem is
preserved as much as possible in the approximate problem solved in each
iteration, 2) easy implementation as each approximate problem is suitable for
parallel computation and its solution has a closed-form expression, and 3)
guaranteed convergence to a stationary point or a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker point. The
advantages of the proposed algorithm are also illustrated numerically.Comment: submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processin