Resource pooling and effective bandwidths in CDMA networks withmultiuser receivers and spatial diversity

Much of the performance analysis on multiuser receivers for direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems is focused on worst case near-far scenarios. The user capacity of power-controlled networks with multiuser receivers are less well-understood. Tse and Hanly (see ibid., vol.45, p.541-657, 1999) have shown that under some conditions, the user capacity of an uplink power-controlled CDMA cell for several important linear receivers can be very simply characterized via a notion of effective bandwidth. We show that these results extend to the case of antenna arrays. We consider a CDMA system consisting of users transmitting to an antenna array with a multiuser receiver, and obtain the limiting signal-to-interference (SIR) performance in a large system using random spreading sequences. Using this result, we show that the SIR requirements of all the users can be met if and only if the sum of the effective bandwidths of the users is less than the total number of degrees of freedom in the system. The effective bandwidth of a user depends only on its own requirement. Our results show that the total number of degrees of freedom of the whole system is the product of the spreading gain and the number of antennas. In the case when the fading distributions to the antennas are identical, we show that a curious phenomenon of “resource pooling” arises: the multiantenna system behaves like a system with only one antenna but with the processing gain the product of the processing gain of the original system and the number of antennas, and the received power of each user the sum of the received powers at the individual antennas     

几种多天线系统的信道容量比较

分布式天线、智能天线和扇区天线是三种能大大提高无线通信系统容量的技术,本文比较了这三种多天线系统的信道(Shannon)容量.假设每个用户在所有接收天线上的总功率相等,分析表明分布式天线和扇区天线的信道容量远大于智能天线的信道容量,而传统的观点认为智能天线在抑制干扰时要比扇区天线的性能更好,从而获得更大的系统容量.另外我们分析了分布式天线在渐近条件下的信道容量,即用户数K和载波数M都趋近无穷大,而保证α=K/M一定.分析表明在α较大时,分布式天线与比扇区天线的信道容量差趋近常数0.44比特/秒/维,但是如果考虑分布式天线的分集增益,那么分布式天线的信道容量要远大于扇区天线.     

A low-complexity combined antenna array and interferencecancellation DS-CDMA receiver in multipath fading channels

A simple direct sequence-code division multiple access receiver that combines adaptive beamforming with parallel interference cancellation in a multipath fading channel is proposed and analyzed. A fast adaptation, conjugate gradient algorithm is used to find the optimum beamformer weights. By beamforming, the desired user's signal is enhanced and the cochannel interference from other directions is reduced. For in-beam multiple access interference reduction, a parallel interference canceller is used in each RAKE finger. In the demodulation process, we propose a new demodulation method in which the incoming signal is correlated with the effecting spreading code rather than the physical spreading code called the effective matched filter. A new combining method called equivalent maximal ratio combining is also proposed and analyzed. The average uncoded bit error rate as a function of the average antenna signal-to-noise ratio and the number of receiving antennas is examined in a frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel for all proposed receiver structures. Both simulation and analysis show an increase in system capacity as a function of the number of antennas and the number of interferers canceled per finger     

分布式MIMO系统发送天线选择与预编码联合设计

为了抑制多用户分布式多入多出(MIMO)系统中的同道干扰(CCI),使系统同时服务于更多用户,提出一种发送天线选择与预编码的联合设计方法。该方法立足于分布式MIMO系统基站端天线较多的特点,将下行发送天线选择与信漏噪比(SLNR)预编码相结合,通过为用户选择不同天线,从根本上减少CCI;在为每个用户选择天线时,先以信道子矩阵的迹为依据进行端口选择,再采用逐减的方法选择使SLNR损失值最小的天线,以保证每个用户对其他用户的干扰尽量小,从而达到进一步抑制CCI的目的。复杂度分析和仿真结果表明,该方法在具有较低复杂度同时,其容量性能仍可逼近最优算法;较之单纯的SLNR预编码,在相同的容量性能约束下,其能够有效增加系统同时服务的用户数。     

Antenna and User Subset Selection in Downlink Multiuser Orthogonal Space-Division Multiplexing

Block diagonalization (BD) and successive optimization (SO) are two suboptimal but more practical (compared to dirty paper coding (DPC)) orthogonal linear precoding techniques for the downlink of multiuser MIMO systems. Since the numbers of users supported by BD or SO for a given number of transmit antennas are limited, BD or SO should be combined with scheduling so that a subset of users is selected at a given time slot while meeting the dimensionality requirements of these techniques. On the other hand, receive antenna selection (RAS) is a promising hardware complexity reduction technique. In this paper, we consider user scheduling in conjunction with receive antenna selection. Since exhaustive search is computationally prohibitive, we propose simplified and suboptimal user scheduling algorithms for both BD and SO. For BD, we propose capacity and Frobenius-norm based suboptimal algorithms with the objective of sum rate maximization. Starting from an empty set, each step of proposed algorithms adds the best user from the set of users not selected yet until the desired number of users have been selected. Proposed receive antenna selection works in conjunction with user scheduling to further enhance the sum rate of BD. For SO, a Frobenius-norm based low complexity algorithm is proposed, which maximizes the ratio of the squared Frobenius norm of the equivalent channel (projected to the joint null space of the previously selected users) to the sum of the squared Frobenius norms of the previously selected users’ preprocessed channels. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms achieve sum rates close to exhaustive search algorithms with much reduced complexity. We also show that in addition to reduced hardware complexity at the receiver, antenna selection enhances multiuser diversity gain that is achieved with user scheduling.     

Performance of wireless CDMA with M-ary orthogonal modulation andcell site antenna arrays

An antenna array-based base station receiver structure for wireless direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS/CDMA) with M-ary orthogonal modulation is proposed. The base station uses an antenna array beamformer-RAKE structure with noncoherent equal gain combining. The receiver consists of a “front end” beamsteering processor feeding a conventional noncoherent RAKE combiner. The performance of the proposed receiver with closed loop power control in multipath fading channels is evaluated. Expressions for the system uncoded bit-error probability (BEP) as a function of the number of users, number of antennas, and the angle spread are derived for different power control scenarios. The system capacity in terms of number of users that can be supported for a given uncoded BEP is also evaluated. Analysis results show a performance improvement in terms of the system capacity due to the use of antenna arrays and the associated signal processing at the base station. In particular, analysis results show an increase in system capacity that is proportional to the number of antennas. They also show an additional performance improvement due to space diversity gain provided by the array for nonzero angle spreads     

基于联合用户分组及天线选择的大规模MIMO波束成形

大规模MIMO系统中,当小区用户数与基站天线数较大时,各用户的信道条件不尽相同,提出一种适用于大规模MIMO下行链路的基于联合用户分组及天线选择的迫零波束成形算法。将用户分成两组,选择信道条件较优的一组用户来接收信号,并为每一个发送数据流选择最优的基站天线组合进行通信,以较小的性能损失,换取大规模MIMO 射频电路的成本与功耗的大幅度降低。仿真结果证明,该算法能够较好地实现系统性能与硬件复杂度的折中。     

Multiuser detection for continuous phase modulation over Rayleigh fading channels

We study multiuser (MU) continuous phase modulation (CPM) over Rayleigh fading channels with a receiver antenna array. An optimum symbol-by-symbol MU detector is derived and its practical implementation with reduced-complexity is considered. According to the numerical results, the MU detector performs very close to a system free of interference by other users, when each user has more than one receiving antenna. For three receiving antennas, this difference is less than 0.25 dB, 0.4 dB, and 0.6 dB for two, three and four users, respectively. Moreover, the proposed system is bandwidth efficient as CPM is a bandwidth efficient modulation scheme, and the MU system only uses the single user CPM bandwidth.     

LTE-Advanced上行虚拟MIMO系统用户配对算法研究

LTE引入了虚拟MIMO技术来解决终端天线数目较少的问题。用户配对是进行虚拟MIMO传输的重要环节,传统的配对算法只进行两用户配对,但在LTE-Advanced中,由于基站端最多支持8根发送天线,因此可以进行多用户虚拟MI-MO传输。文章提出了根据传输速率进行自适应用户配对数量选择的算法,并提出最低配对调制编码方案的概念,从而能在保证边缘用户吞吐量的基础上提升系统平均性能。     

On the capacity of the vector MAC with feedback

In this correspondence, we determine the feedback capacity region of a two user Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with multiple antennas at the base station and a single antenna at each user. The vector MAC with a single antenna at the base station and multiple antennas at each user is shown to be equivalent to a scalar MAC. We also determine the capacity enhancement due to feedback at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the scalar and vector MAC for any number of users. Extensions of the high SNR results to the vector broadcast channel are also provided.     

Sum capacity of MIMO Gaussian broadcast channels with channel energy constraints

The motivation of this paper is to find the class of channels that provides the best sum capacity of a MIMO Gaussian broadcast channel with both transmit power and channel energy constraints when N/sub t//spl ges/KN/sub r/, where N/sub t/, N/sub r/, and K denote the number of transmit antennas, the number of receive antennas, and the number of users in the system, respectively. The best sum capacity is achieved when the user channels are mutually orthogonal to each other. For each individual user, equal energy is distributed to all non-zero spatial eigenmodes. Further, we optimize the number of non-zero eigenmodes for all users and the optimal power distribution among users. Although, we only study the case of N/sub t//spl ges/KN/sub r/ in this paper, we conjecture that similar results still hold for N/sub t/相似文献   

Generalized multiuser orthogonal space-division multiplexing

This paper addresses the problem of performing orthogonal space-division multiplexing (OSDM) for downlink, point-to-multipoint communications when multiple antennas are utilized at the base station (BS) and (optionally) all mobile stations (MS). Based on a closed-form antenna weight solution for single-user multiple-input multiple-output communications in the presence of other receiver points, we devise an iterative algorithm that finds the multiuser antenna weights for OSDM in downlink or broadcast channels. Upon convergence, each mobile user will receive only the desired activated spatial modes with no cochannel interference. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of OSDM among the number of mobile users, the number of transmit antennas at the BS, and the number of receive antennas at the MS, are also derived. The assumption for the proposed method is that the BS knows the channels for all MS's and that the channel dynamics are quasi-stationary.     

MIMO OFDM排序判决反馈检测方法

一般多天线系统的判决反馈检测方法中,是顺序检测每用户天线端接收信号,其缺点是若从前面若干幅接收天线检测出的信号误差较大,则会降低后续天线端检测性能.为解决该问题,本文提出一种排序判决反馈检测方法,其思想先对待检测的用户天线支路排序,利用计算预测误差获得的待检测天线支路对应信道逆阵向量是已检测天线支路对应信道逆阵向量的线性组合特征,应用正交变换求解获得用户天线支路的检测顺序,使当前待检测用户天线端的迫零向量与已检测用户天线支路的迫零向量正交,这样可使由已检测用户天线支路带来的判决反馈误差最小,进而提高了检测性能.     

Performance of a wireless MC-CDMA system with an antenna array in afading channel: reverse link

We propose a multicarrier code-division multiple-access (MC-CDMA) system employing an antenna array at the base station, and analyze the performance of the MC-CDMA system in a fading channel. An optimal beamformer not requiring explicit direction of arrival estimation or training signals is derived for the MC-CDMA system in the reverse link, and is shown to reduce interferences from other users significantly, thus increasing the system's user capacity. Also, it is shown that the MC-CDMA approach can achieve better performance than the direct-sequence CDMA approach when both approaches employ the code filtering technique for the antenna array     

Directional signal modulation by means of switched spaced antennas

The theory of modulation by hopping or by commutation among a number of spaced antennas is presented. The theory brings out the important considerations and criteria for determining the separation of discrete antennas in time and/or space that produces a desired modulation. In addition, antenna hopping and commutation are proposed for generating direction-dependent spread spectrum to enhance receiving system anti-interference processing gain and/or transmitted signal camouflage and LPI, as well as to provide an effective means for channel monitoring and analytical probing     

Efficient Beamforming by SLNR Maximization for Dual-Hop Relay Assisted MIMO Network

Relay beamforming is a key signal processing technique to mitigate interference in single and multiuser multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication networks. In MIMO relay networks interference cancellation is an essential task of the study to get optimal network capacity. In this paper, the problem of interference resulted from leakage signal from desired signal for intended antenna, which causing interference to other antennas of the same user with multiple antennas is tackled. The criterion of signal to leakage plus noise ratio (SLNR) maximization is considered to design a vector by vector relay downlink precoding based on Fukunaga Koontz transform. This can control the interference among multiple antennas and maximize SLNR. However, matched filter beamforming is utilized at the relay receiving side that can increase output signal to noise ratio at the relay node. The channel state information of both the channel between source to relay and relay to destination is assumed at the relay node. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is studied and compared with conventional relay precoding techniques. Simulation is carried out in MATLAB environment using ideal channel conditions. This study demonstrates that, the proposed scheme for relay assisted MIMO networks can improve overall system performance in terms of ergodic capacity.     

Transmit antenna selection of correlated MIMO multiuser cognitive radio networks in Nakagami‐m fading channels

In this paper, we examine the impact of antenna correlation on transmit antenna selection with receive maximal ratio combining (TAS/MRC) in multiple‐input multiple‐output multiuser underlay cognitive radio network (MIMO‐MCN) over a Nakagami‐m fading environment. The secondary network under consideration consists of a single source and M destinations equipped with multiple correlated antennas at each node. The primary network composed of L primary users, each of which is equipped with multiple correlated antennas. For the considered underlay spectrum sharing paradigm, the transmission power of the proposed secondary system is limited by the peak interference limit on the primary network and the maximum transmission power at the secondary network. In particular, we derive exact closed‐form expressions for the outage probability and average symbol error rate of the proposed secondary system. To gain further insights, simple asymptotic closed‐form expressions for the outage probability and symbol error rate are provided to obtain the achievable diversity order and coding gain of the system. In addition, the impact of antenna correlation on the secondary user ergodic capacity has been investigated by deriving closed‐form expressions for the secondary user capacity. The derived analytical formulas herein are supported by numerical and simulation results to clarify the main contributions. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Experiments on coherent adaptive antenna array diversity forwideband DS-CDMA mobile radio

In wideband direct sequence code division multiple access (W-CDMA), employing an adaptive antenna array is a very promising technique to reduce severe multiple access interference (MAI) from high rate users. A four-antenna pilot symbol-assisted coherent adaptive antenna array diversity (PSA-CAAAD) receiver comprising an adaptive antenna array based on a minimum mean squared error (MMSE) criterion and a RAKE combiner is implemented in preliminary laboratory and field experiments. There are two important design concepts of the PSA-CAAAD receiver. The first is that the adaptive antenna array forms an antenna beam for each resolved propagation path and tracks only slow changes in the directions of arrival (DOAs) and average powers of the desired and interfering user signals. The second is that the RAKE combiner tracks the instantaneous changes in channel conditions and coherently combines the signals of the desired user propagating along the resolved paths to maximize the instantaneous signal-to-interference plus background noise power ratio (SINR). This paper presents, both by laboratory and field experiments, the effectiveness of PSA-CAAAD receiver as a powerful means to reduce severe MAI from high rate users, and that it is more effective than using a space diversity receiver with the same number of antennas in the W-CDMA reverse link     

多用户分布式MIMO-OFDM系统中天线与子载波分配算法研究

本文针对多用户分布式MIMO-OFDM系统中的资源联合分配问题,提出了一种基于端口选择的天线与子载波分配算法。该算法依据计算复杂度容限设定用户通信静态端口数,以此为每个用户选取信道状况最好的通信端口进行通信,进而通过天线端口与下属用户的相互配合,并行地完成天线与子载波的分配。仿真结果表明,该算法在系统天线数大于用户数的情况下容量性能优于MASA算法,且其端口并行处理机制可以有效提高资源分配效率。     

回传链路容量受限条件下分布式大规模MIMO系统的联合用户调度及天线选择(英文)

Massive MIMO systems offer a high spatial resolution that can drastically increase the spectral and/or energy efficiency by employing a large number of antennas at the base station(BS).In a distributed massive MIMO system,the capacity of fiber backhaul that links base station and remote radio heads is usually limited,which becomes a bottleneck for realizing the potential performance gain of both downlink and uplink.To solve this problem,we propose a joint antenna selection and user scheduling which is able to achieve a large portion of the potential gain provided by the massive MIMO array with only limited backhaul capacity.Three sub-optimal iterative algorithms with the objective of sumrate maximization are proposed for the joint optimization of antenna selection and user scheduling,either based on greedy fashion or Frobenius-norm criteria.Convergence and complexity analysis are presented for the algorithms.The provided Monte Carlo simulations show that,one of our algorithms achieves a good tradeoff between complexity and performance and thus is especially fit for massive MIMO systems.