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Sum-Rate and Power Scaling of Massive MIMO Systems with Channel Aging
2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.This paper investigates the achievable sum-rate of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the presence of channel aging. For the uplink, by assuming that the base station (BS) deploys maximum ratio combining (MRC) or zero-forcing (ZF) receivers, we present tight closed-form lower bounds on the achievable sum-rate for both receivers with aged channel state information (CSI). In addition, the benefit of implementing channel prediction methods on the sum-rate is examined, and closed-form sum-rate lower bounds are derived. Moreover, the impact of channel aging and channel prediction on the power scaling law is characterized. Extension to the downlink scenario and multicell scenario is also considered. It is found that, for a system with/without channel prediction, the transmit power of each user can be scaled down at most by 1/√M (where M is the number of BS antennas), which indicates that aged CSI does not degrade the power scaling law, and channel prediction does not enhance the power scaling law; instead, these phenomena affect the achievable sum-rate by degrading or enhancing the effective signal to interference and noise ratio, respectively.Peer reviewe
Enhancing massive MIMO: A new approach for Uplink training based on heterogeneous coherence time
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is one of the key technologies
in future generation networks. Owing to their considerable spectral and energy
efficiency gains, massive MIMO systems provide the needed performance to cope
with the ever increasing wireless capacity demand. Nevertheless, the number of
scheduled users stays limited in massive MIMO both in time division duplexing
(TDD) and frequency division duplexing (FDD) systems. This is due to the
limited coherence time, in TDD systems, and to limited feedback capacity, in
FDD mode. In current systems, the time slot duration in TDD mode is the same
for all users. This is a suboptimal approach since users are subject to
heterogeneous Doppler spreads and, consequently, different coherence times. In
this paper, we investigate a massive MIMO system operating in TDD mode in
which, the frequency of uplink training differs among users based on their
actual channel coherence times. We argue that optimizing uplink training by
exploiting this diversity can lead to considerable spectral efficiency gain. We
then provide a user scheduling algorithm that exploits a coherence interval
based grouping in order to maximize the achievable weighted sum rate
Towards a Realistic Assessment of Multiple Antenna HCNs: Residual Additive Transceiver Hardware Impairments and Channel Aging
Given the critical dependence of broadcast channels by the accuracy of
channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT), we develop a general
downlink model with zero-forcing (ZF) precoding, applied in realistic
heterogeneous cellular systems with multiple antenna base stations (BSs).
Specifically, we take into consideration imperfect CSIT due to pilot
contamination, channel aging due to users relative movement, and unavoidable
residual additive transceiver hardware impairments (RATHIs). Assuming that the
BSs are Poisson distributed, the main contributions focus on the derivations of
the upper bound of the coverage probability and the achievable user rate for
this general model. We show that both the coverage probability and the user
rate are dependent on the imperfect CSIT and RATHIs. More concretely, we
quantify the resultant performance loss of the network due to these effects. We
depict that the uplink RATHIs have equal impact, but the downlink transmit BS
distortion has a greater impact than the receive hardware impairment of the
user. Thus, the transmit BS hardware should be of better quality than user's
receive hardware. Furthermore, we characterise both the coverage probability
and user rate in terms of the time variation of the channel. It is shown that
both of them decrease with increasing user mobility, but after a specific value
of the normalised Doppler shift, they increase again. Actually, the time
variation, following the Jakes autocorrelation function, mirrors this effect on
coverage probability and user rate. Finally, we consider space division
multiple access (SDMA), single user beamforming (SU-BF), and baseline
single-input single-output (SISO) transmission. A comparison among these
schemes reveals that the coverage by means of SU-BF outperforms SDMA in terms
of coverage.Comment: accepted in IEEE TV
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