7 research outputs found
1-Bit Massive MIMO Downlink Based on Constructive Interference
In this paper, we focus on the multiuser massive multiple-input single-output
(MISO) downlink with low-cost 1-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs) for PSK
modulation, and propose a low-complexity refinement process that is applicable
to any existing 1-bit precoding approaches based on the constructive
interference (CI) formulation. With the decomposition of the signals along the
detection thresholds, we first formulate a simple symbol-scaling method as the
performance metric. The low-complexity refinement approach is subsequently
introduced, where we aim to improve the introduced symbol-scaling performance
metric by modifying the transmit signal on one antenna at a time. Numerical
results validate the effectiveness of the proposed refinement method on
existing approaches for massive MIMO with 1-bit DACs, and the performance
improvements are most significant for the low-complexity quantized zero-forcing
(ZF) method.Comment: 5 pages, EUSIPCO 201
Near-Optimal Interference Exploitation 1-Bit Massive MIMO Precoding via Partial Branch-and-Bound
In this paper, we focus on 1-bit precoding for large-scale antenna systems in
the downlink based on the concept of constructive interference (CI). By
formulating the optimization problem that aims to maximize the CI effect
subject to the 1-bit constraint on the transmit signals, we mathematically
prove that, when relaxing the 1-bit constraint, the majority of the obtained
transmit signals already satisfy the 1-bit constraint. Based on this important
observation, we propose a 1-bit precoding method via a partial branch-and-bound
(P-BB) approach, where the BB procedure is only performed for the entries that
do not comply with the 1-bit constraint. The proposed P-BB enables the use of
the BB framework in large-scale antenna scenarios, which was not applicable due
to its prohibitive complexity. Numerical results demonstrate a near-optimal
error rate performance for the proposed 1-bit precoding algorithm.Comment: accepted by IEEE ICASSP202
Quantized Constant Envelope Precoding with PSK and QAM Signaling
Coarsely quantized massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems are
gaining more interest due to their power efficiency. We present a new precoding
technique to mitigate the Multi-User Interference (MUI) and the quantization
distortions in a downlink Multi-User (MU) MIMO system with coarsely Quantized
Constant Envelope (QCE) signals at the transmitter. The transmit signal vector
is optimized for every desired received vector taking into account the QCE
constraint. The optimization is based on maximizing the safety margin to the
decision thresholds of the receiver constellation modulation. Simulation
results show a significant gain in terms of the uncoded Bit Error Ratio (BER)
compared to the existing linear precoding techniques
Nonlinear Precoding for Phase-Quantized Constant-Envelope Massive MU-MIMO-OFDM
We propose a nonlinear phase-quantized constant-envelope precoding algorithm for the massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink. Specifically, we adapt the squared-infinity norm Douglas-Rachford splitting (SQUID) precoder to systems that use oversampling digital-to-analog converters (DACs) at the base station (BS) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to communicate over frequency-selective channels. We demonstrate that the proposed SQUID-OFDM precoder is able to generate transmit signals that are constrained to constant envelope, which enables the use of power-efficient analog radio-frequency circuitry at the BS. By quantizing the phase of the resulting constant-envelope signal, we obtain a finite-cardinality transmit signal that can be synthesized by low-resolution (e.g., 1-bit) DACs. We use error-rate simulations to demonstrate the superiority of SQUID-OFDM over linear-quantized precoders for massive MU-MIMO-OFDM systems
Massive MIMO 1-Bit DAC Transmission: A Low-Complexity Symbol Scaling Approach
CCBY We study multi-user massive multiple-input singleoutput (MISO) systems and focus on downlink transmission for PSK modulation, where the base station (BS) employs a large antenna array with low-cost 1-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The direct combination of existing beamforming schemes with 1-bit DACs is shown to lead to an error floor at mediumto- high SNR regime, due to the coarse quantization of the DACs with limited precision. In this paper, based on the constructive interference we consider both a quantized linear beamforming scheme where we analytically obtain the optimal beamforming matrix, and a non-linear mapping scheme where we directly design the transmit signal vector. Due to the 1-bit quantization, the formulated optimization for the non-linear mapping scheme is shown to be non-convex. The non-convex constraints of the 1-bit DACs are firstly relaxed into convex, followed by an element-wise normalization to satisfy the 1-bit DAC transmission. We further propose a low-complexity symbol scaling scheme that consists of three stages, in which the quantized transmit signal on each antenna element is selected sequentially. Numerical results show that the proposed symbol scaling scheme achieves a comparable performance to the optimization-based non-linear mapping approach, while the corresponding performance-complexity tradeoff is more favorable for the proposed symbol scaling method