Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization using Weighted MMSE for MIMO-BC Beamforming Design

Abstract—This paper studies linear transmit filter design for Weighted Sum-Rate (WSR) maximization in the Multiple Input Multiple Output Broadcast Channel (MIMO-BC). The problem of finding the optimal transmit filter is non-convex and intractable to solve using low complexity methods. Motivated by recent results highlighting the relationship between mutual information and Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE), this paper establishes a relationship between weighted sum-rate and weighted MMSE in the MIMO-BC. The relationship is used to propose two low complexity algorithms for finding a local weighted sum-rate optimum based on alternating optimization. Numerical results studying sum-rate show that the proposed algorithms achieve high performance with few iterations. Index Terms—MIMO systems, transceiver design, smart antennas, antennas and propagation. I

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