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Scaling laws of multiple antenna group-broadcast channels
Broadcast (or point to multipoint) communication has attracted a lot of research recently. In this paper, we consider the group broadcast channel where the users' pool is divided into groups, each of which is interested in common information. Such a situation occurs for example in digital audio and video broadcast where the users are divided into various groups according to the shows they are interested in. The paper obtains upper and lower bounds for the sum rate capacity in the large number of users regime and quantifies the effect of spatial correlation on the system capacity. The paper also studies the scaling of the system capacity when the number of users and antennas grow simultaneously. It is shown that in order to achieve a constant rate per user, the number of transmit antennas should scale at least logarithmically in the number of users
Fundamental Limits in MIMO Broadcast Channels
This paper studies the fundamental limits of MIMO broadcast channels from a high level, determining the sum-rate capacity of the system as a function of system paramaters, such as the number of transmit antennas, the number of users, the number of receive antennas, and the total transmit power. The crucial role of channel state information at the transmitter is emphasized, as well as the emergence of opportunistic transmission schemes. The effects of channel estimation errors, training, and spatial correlation are studied, as well as issues related to fairness, delay and differentiated rate scheduling
Performance of Orthogonal Beamforming for SDMA with Limited Feedback
On the multi-antenna broadcast channel, the spatial degrees of freedom
support simultaneous transmission to multiple users. The optimal multiuser
transmission, known as dirty paper coding, is not directly realizable.
Moreover, close-to-optimal solutions such as Tomlinson-Harashima precoding are
sensitive to CSI inaccuracy. This paper considers a more practical design
called per user unitary and rate control (PU2RC), which has been proposed for
emerging cellular standards. PU2RC supports multiuser simultaneous
transmission, enables limited feedback, and is capable of exploiting multiuser
diversity. Its key feature is an orthogonal beamforming (or precoding)
constraint, where each user selects a beamformer (or precoder) from a codebook
of multiple orthonormal bases. In this paper, the asymptotic throughput scaling
laws for PU2RC with a large user pool are derived for different regimes of the
signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In the multiuser-interference-limited regime, the
throughput of PU2RC is shown to scale logarithmically with the number of users.
In the normal SNR and noise-limited regimes, the throughput is found to scale
double logarithmically with the number of users and also linearly with the
number of antennas at the base station. In addition, numerical results show
that PU2RC achieves higher throughput and is more robust against CSI
quantization errors than the popular alternative of zero-forcing beamforming if
the number of users is sufficiently large.Comment: 27 pages; to appear in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technolog
Random Beamforming with Heterogeneous Users and Selective Feedback: Individual Sum Rate and Individual Scaling Laws
This paper investigates three open problems in random beamforming based
communication systems: the scheduling policy with heterogeneous users, the
closed form sum rate, and the randomness of multiuser diversity with selective
feedback. By employing the cumulative distribution function based scheduling
policy, we guarantee fairness among users as well as obtain multiuser diversity
gain in the heterogeneous scenario. Under this scheduling framework, the
individual sum rate, namely the average rate for a given user multiplied by the
number of users, is of interest and analyzed under different feedback schemes.
Firstly, under the full feedback scheme, we derive the closed form individual
sum rate by employing a decomposition of the probability density function of
the selected user's signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio. This technique is
employed to further obtain a closed form rate approximation with selective
feedback in the spatial dimension. The analysis is also extended to random
beamforming in a wideband OFDMA system with additional selective feedback in
the spectral dimension wherein only the best beams for the best-L resource
blocks are fed back. We utilize extreme value theory to examine the randomness
of multiuser diversity incurred by selective feedback. Finally, by leveraging
the tail equivalence method, the multiplicative effect of selective feedback
and random observations is observed to establish the individual rate scaling.Comment: Submitted in March 2012. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications. Part of this paper builds upon the following letter: Y. Huang
and B. D. Rao, "Closed form sum rate of random beamforming", IEEE Commun.
Lett., vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 630-633, May 201
Multiuser Diversity for Secrecy Communications Using Opportunistic Jammer Selection -- Secure DoF and Jammer Scaling Law
In this paper, we propose opportunistic jammer selection in a wireless
security system for increasing the secure degrees of freedom (DoF) between a
transmitter and a legitimate receiver (say, Alice and Bob). There is a jammer
group consisting of jammers among which Bob selects jammers. The
selected jammers transmit independent and identically distributed Gaussian
signals to hinder the eavesdropper (Eve). Since the channels of Bob and Eve are
independent, we can select the jammers whose jamming channels are aligned at
Bob, but not at Eve. As a result, Eve cannot obtain any DoF unless it has more
than receive antennas, where is the number of jammer's transmit
antenna each, and hence can be regarded as defensible dimensions against
Eve. For the jamming signal alignment at Bob, we propose two opportunistic
jammer selection schemes and find the scaling law of the required number of
jammers for target secure DoF by a geometrical interpretation of the received
signals.Comment: Accepted with minor revisions, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processin
Bit Allocation Law for Multi-Antenna Channel Feedback Quantization: Single-User Case
This paper studies the design and optimization of a limited feedback
single-user system with multiple-antenna transmitter and single-antenna
receiver. The design problem is cast in form of the minimizing the average
transmission power at the base station subject to the user's outage probability
constraint. The optimization is over the user's channel quantization codebook
and the transmission power control function at the base station. Our approach
is based on fixing the outage scenarios in advance and transforming the design
problem into a robust system design problem. We start by showing that uniformly
quantizing the channel magnitude in dB scale is asymptotically optimal,
regardless of the magnitude distribution function. We derive the optimal
uniform (in dB) channel magnitude codebook and combine it with a spatially
uniform channel direction codebook to arrive at a product channel quantization
codebook. We then optimize such a product structure in the asymptotic regime of
, where is the total number of quantization feedback
bits. The paper shows that for channels in the real space, the asymptotically
optimal number of direction quantization bits should be times
the number of magnitude quantization bits, where is the number of base
station antennas. We also show that the performance of the designed system
approaches the performance of the perfect channel state information system as
. For complex channels, the number of magnitude and
direction quantization bits are related by a factor of and the system
performance scales as as .Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, March 201
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