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Practical large scale antenna systems for 5G cellular communications
In order to increase capacity and reduce power consumption for future cellular
networks, new cellular architectures and radio access schemes will be required. Two important
technologies for future 5G networks include Cloud-Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) [1] and Large Scale
Antenna Systems (LSAS) with hundred's of low power radios to increase the cell capacity with multi-user
MIMO multiplexing and beamforming. Although LSAS in theory [2] promises large capacity gains at the
fraction of the power consumed by the current macro-basestations; there are many practical challenges
that need to be overcome before LSAS can be successfully integrated into current and future cellular
networks including: 1) low-power beamforming algorithms and 2) irregular array beamforming. This
project examines each challenge and proposes possible solutions
User Detection Performance Analysis for Grant-Free Uplink Transmission in Large-Scale Antenna Systems
In this paper, user detection performance of a grant-free uplink transmission
in a large scale antenna system is analyzed, in which a general grant-free
multiple access is considered as the system model and Zadoff-Chu sequence is
used for the uplink pilot. The false alarm probabilities of various user
detection schemes under the target detection probabilities are evaluated
Dominant Channel Estimation via MIPS for Large-Scale Antenna Systems with One-Bit ADCs
In large-scale antenna systems, using one-bit analog-to-digital converters
(ADCs) has recently become important since they offer significant reductions in
both power and cost. However, in contrast to high-resolution ADCs, the coarse
quantization of one-bit ADCs results in an irreversible loss of information. In
the context of channel estimation, studies have been developed extensively to
combat the performance loss incurred by one-bit ADCs. Furthermore, in the field
of array signal processing, direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation combined with
one-bit ADCs has gained growing interests recently to minimize the estimation
error. In this paper, a channel estimator is proposed for one-bit ADCs where
the channels are characterized by their angular geometries, e.g., uniform
linear arrays (ULAs). The goal is to estimate the dominant channel among
multiple paths. The proposed channel estimator first finds the DOA estimate
using the maximum inner product search (MIPS). Then, the channel fading
coefficient is estimated using the concavity of the log-likelihood function.
The limit inherent in one-bit ADCs is also investigated, which results from the
loss of magnitude information.Comment: to appear in GLOBECOM 2018, Abu Dhabi, UA
Efficient large scale antenna selection by partial switching connectivity
In this work we analyze the benefits of low-complexity radio frequency (RF) switching matrices (SMs) for antenna selection (AS) in large scale antenna systems (LSAS). The reduced RF complexity and insertion losses (ILs) are attained by limiting the number of internal connections in the SM, at the expense of a limited flexibility in the AS. The results presented in this paper demonstrate that partially-connected (PC) SMs outperform conventional fully-flexible (FF) alternatives due to their reduced ILs, which are characterized in this work
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