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Asymptotic Analysis of SU-MIMO Channels With Transmitter Noise and Mismatched Joint Decoding
Hardware impairments in radio-frequency components of a wireless system cause
unavoidable distortions to transmission that are not captured by the
conventional linear channel model. In this paper, a 'binoisy' single-user
multiple-input multiple-output (SU-MIMO) relation is considered where the
additional distortions are modeled via an additive noise term at the transmit
side. Through this extended SU-MIMO channel model, the effects of transceiver
hardware impairments on the achievable rate of multi-antenna point-to-point
systems are studied. Channel input distributions encompassing practical
discrete modulation schemes, such as, QAM and PSK, as well as Gaussian
signaling are covered. In addition, the impact of mismatched detection and
decoding when the receiver has insufficient information about the
non-idealities is investigated. The numerical results show that for realistic
system parameters, the effects of transmit-side noise and mismatched decoding
become significant only at high modulation orders.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
Asymptotic Mutual Information Statistics of Separately-Correlated Rician Fading MIMO Channels
Precise characterization of the mutual information of MIMO systems is
required to assess the throughput of wireless communication channels in the
presence of Rician fading and spatial correlation. Here, we present an
asymptotic approach allowing to approximate the distribution of the mutual
information as a Gaussian distribution in order to provide both the average
achievable rate and the outage probability. More precisely, the mean and
variance of the mutual information of the separatelycorrelated Rician fading
MIMO channel are derived when the number of transmit and receive antennas grows
asymptotically large and their ratio approaches a finite constant. The
derivation is based on the replica method, an asymptotic technique widely used
in theoretical physics and, more recently, in the performance analysis of
communication (CDMA and MIMO) systems. The replica method allows to analyze
very difficult system cases in a comparatively simple way though some authors
pointed out that its assumptions are not always rigorous. Being aware of this,
we underline the key assumptions made in this setting, quite similar to the
assumptions made in the technical literature using the replica method in their
asymptotic analyses. As far as concerns the convergence of the mutual
information to the Gaussian distribution, it is shown that it holds under some
mild technical conditions, which are tantamount to assuming that the spatial
correlation structure has no asymptotically dominant eigenmodes. The accuracy
of the asymptotic approach is assessed by providing a sizeable number of
numerical results. It is shown that the approximation is very accurate in a
wide variety of system settings even when the number of transmit and receive
antennas is as small as a few units.Comment: - submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory on Nov.
19, 2006 - revised and submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory on Dec. 19, 200
Massive MIMO for Internet of Things (IoT) Connectivity
Massive MIMO is considered to be one of the key technologies in the emerging
5G systems, but also a concept applicable to other wireless systems. Exploiting
the large number of degrees of freedom (DoFs) of massive MIMO essential for
achieving high spectral efficiency, high data rates and extreme spatial
multiplexing of densely distributed users. On the one hand, the benefits of
applying massive MIMO for broadband communication are well known and there has
been a large body of research on designing communication schemes to support
high rates. On the other hand, using massive MIMO for Internet-of-Things (IoT)
is still a developing topic, as IoT connectivity has requirements and
constraints that are significantly different from the broadband connections. In
this paper we investigate the applicability of massive MIMO to IoT
connectivity. Specifically, we treat the two generic types of IoT connections
envisioned in 5G: massive machine-type communication (mMTC) and ultra-reliable
low-latency communication (URLLC). This paper fills this important gap by
identifying the opportunities and challenges in exploiting massive MIMO for IoT
connectivity. We provide insights into the trade-offs that emerge when massive
MIMO is applied to mMTC or URLLC and present a number of suitable communication
schemes. The discussion continues to the questions of network slicing of the
wireless resources and the use of massive MIMO to simultaneously support IoT
connections with very heterogeneous requirements. The main conclusion is that
massive MIMO can bring benefits to the scenarios with IoT connectivity, but it
requires tight integration of the physical-layer techniques with the protocol
design.Comment: Submitted for publicatio
Massive MIMO Systems with Non-Ideal Hardware: Energy Efficiency, Estimation, and Capacity Limits
The use of large-scale antenna arrays can bring substantial improvements in
energy and/or spectral efficiency to wireless systems due to the greatly
improved spatial resolution and array gain. Recent works in the field of
massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) show that the user channels
decorrelate when the number of antennas at the base stations (BSs) increases,
thus strong signal gains are achievable with little inter-user interference.
Since these results rely on asymptotics, it is important to investigate whether
the conventional system models are reasonable in this asymptotic regime. This
paper considers a new system model that incorporates general transceiver
hardware impairments at both the BSs (equipped with large antenna arrays) and
the single-antenna user equipments (UEs). As opposed to the conventional case
of ideal hardware, we show that hardware impairments create finite ceilings on
the channel estimation accuracy and on the downlink/uplink capacity of each UE.
Surprisingly, the capacity is mainly limited by the hardware at the UE, while
the impact of impairments in the large-scale arrays vanishes asymptotically and
inter-user interference (in particular, pilot contamination) becomes
negligible. Furthermore, we prove that the huge degrees of freedom offered by
massive MIMO can be used to reduce the transmit power and/or to tolerate larger
hardware impairments, which allows for the use of inexpensive and
energy-efficient antenna elements.Comment: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28 pages, 15
figures. The results can be reproduced using the following Matlab code:
https://github.com/emilbjornson/massive-MIMO-hardware-impairment
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