A New SLNR-based Linear Precoding for Downlink Multi-User Multi-Stream MIMO Systems

Signal-to-leakage-and-noise ratio (SLNR) is a promising criterion for linear precoder design in multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. It decouples the precoder design problem and makes closed-form solution available. In this letter, we present a new linear precoding scheme by slightly relaxing the SLNR maximization for MU-MIMO systems with multiple data streams per user. The precoding matrices are obtained by a general form of simultaneous diagonalization of two Hermitian matrices. The new scheme reduces the gap between the per-stream effective channel gains, an inherent limitation in the original SLNR precoding scheme. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed precoding achieves considerable gains in error performance over the original one for multi-stream transmission while maintaining almost the same achievable sum-rate.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur

Model Selection for Gaussian Mixture Models

This paper is concerned with an important issue in finite mixture modelling, the selection of the number of mixing components. We propose a new penalized likelihood method for model selection of finite multivariate Gaussian mixture models. The proposed method is shown to be statistically consistent in determining of the number of components. A modified EM algorithm is developed to simultaneously select the number of components and to estimate the mixing weights, i.e. the mixing probabilities, and unknown parameters of Gaussian distributions. Simulations and a real data analysis are presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed method

Elliptic Algebra and Integrable Models for Solitons on Noncummutative Torus T{\cal T}

We study the algebra ${\cal A}_n$ and the basis of the Hilbert space ${\cal H}_n$ in terms of the $\theta$ functions of the positions of $n$ solitons. Then we embed the Heisenberg group as the quantum operator factors in the representation of the transfer matrice of various integrable models. Finally we generalize our result to the generic $\theta$ case.Comment: Talk given by Bo-Yu Hou at the Joint APCTP-Nankai Symposium. Tianjin (PRC), Oct. 2001. To appear in the proceedings, to be published by Int. J. Mod. Phys. B. 7 pages, latex, no figure