scholarly journals Broadband over Power Lines Systems Convergence: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Communications Analysis of Overhead and Underground Low-Voltage and Medium-Voltage BPL Networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios G. Lazaropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Modal Analysis ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Power Lines ◽  
Mimo Channels ◽  
Medium Voltage ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Value Decomposition

This review paper reveals the broadband potential of overhead and underground low-voltage (LV) and medium-voltage (MV) broadband over power lines (BPL) networks associated with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology. The contribution of this review paper is fourfold. First, the unified value decomposition (UVD) modal analysis is introduced. UVD modal analysis is a new technique that unifies eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) and singular value decomposition (SVD) modal analyses achieving the common handling of traditional SISO/BPL and upcoming MIMO/BPL systems. The validity of UVD modal analysis is examined by comparing its simulation results with those of other exact analytical models. Second, based on the proposed UVD modal analysis, the MIMO channels of overhead and underground LV and MV BPL networks (distribution BPL networks) are investigated with regard to their inherent characteristics. Towards that direction, an extended collection of well-validated metrics from the communications literature, such as channel attenuation, average channel gain (ACG), root-mean-square delay spread (RMS-DS), coherence bandwidth (CB), cumulative capacity, capacity complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF), and capacity gain (GC), is first applied in overhead and underground MIMO/LV and MIMO/MV BPL channels and systems. It is found that the results of the aforementioned metrics portfolio depend drastically on the frequency, the power grid type (either overhead or underground, either LV or MV), the MIMO scheme configuration properties, the MTL configuration, the physical properties of the cables used, the end-to-end distance, and the number, the electrical length, and the terminations of the branches encountered along the end-to-end BPL signal propagation. Third, three interesting findings concerning the statistical properties of MIMO channels of distribution BPL networks are demonstrated, namely, (i) the ACG, RMS-DS, and cumulative capacity lognormal distributions; (ii) the correlation between RMS-DS and ACG; and (iii) the correlation between RMS-DS and CB. By fitting the numerical results, unified regression distributions appropriate for MIMO/BPL channels and systems are proposed. These three fundamental properties can play significant role in the evaluation of recently proposed statistical channel models for various BPL systems. Fourth, the potential of transformation of overhead and underground LV/BPL and MV/BPL distribution grids to an alternative solution to fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) technology is first revealed. By examining the capacity characteristics of various MIMO scheme configurations and by comparing these capacity results against SISO ones, a new promising urban backbone network seems to be born in a smart grid (SG) environment.

scholarly journals Energy and Information Beamforming in Airborne Massive MIMO System for Wireless Powered Communications

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 3540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yurong Wang ◽  
Aijun Liu ◽  
Kui Xu ◽  
Xiaochen Xia
Keyword(s):  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Hardware Complexity ◽  
Mimo Channels ◽  
Channel State ◽  
Active Antennas ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Critical Problems

Energy supply and information backhaul are critical problems for wireless sensor networks deployed in remote places with poor infrastructure. To deal with these problems, this paper proposes an airborne massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system for wireless energy transfer (WET) and information transmission. An air platform (AP) equipped with a two-dimensional rectangular antenna array is employed to broadcast energy and provide wireless access for ground sensors. By exploiting the statistical property of air-terrestrial MIMO channels, the energy and information beamformers are jointly designed to maximize the average received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), which gives rise to a statistical max-SINR beamforming scheme. The scheme does not rely on the instantaneous channel state information, but still requires large numbers of RF chains at AP. To deal with this problem, a heuristic strongest-path energy and information beamforming scheme is proposed, which can be implemented in the analog-domain with low computational and hardware complexity. The analysis of the relation between the two schemes reveals that, with proper sensor scheduling, the strongest-path beamforming is equivalent to the statistical max-SINR beamforming when the number of AP antennas tends to infinity. Using the asymptotic approximation of average received SINR at AP, the system parameters, including transmit power, number of active antennas of AP and duration of WET phase, are optimized jointly to maximize the system energy efficiency. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed schemes achieve a good tradeoff between system performance and complexity.

scholarly journals Decentralized Limited-Feedback Multiuser MIMO for Temporally Correlated Channels

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Eduardo Zacarías B ◽  
Stefan Werner ◽  
Risto Wichman
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Limited Feedback ◽  
Mimo Channels ◽  
Linear Filters ◽  
Correlated Channels ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Channel Information ◽  
Feedback Algorithm ◽  
Temporally Correlated

This paper proposes a novel multiuser (MU) multiplexing scheme for temporally correlated multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) channels, suitable for systems employing low-rate feedback links. A decentralized solution is obtained by the mobile receivers, which employ interference rejection combiner (IRC) linear filters and command the update of the corresponding per-user antenna transmit weights through compact feedback messages, thus avoiding explicit transmission of channel information. The proposed limited-feedback algorithm outperforms existing MU-MIMO solutions employing quantized matrices, operating at the same feedback overhead. A compensation mechanism is presented, which enables the proposed solution to operate under moderate probabilities of feedback errors, at the expense of a small downlink overhead.

Design of Massive Multiuser MIMO System to Mitigate Inter Antenna Interference and Multiuser Interference in 5G Wireless Networks

2020 ◽  
pp. 693-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naga Raju Challa ◽  
◽  
Kalapraveen Bagadi
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Matrix Computations ◽  
User Terminal ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Value Decomposition ◽  
User Interference

Massive Multi-user Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU‒MIMO) system is aimed to improve throughput and spectral efficiency in 5G communication networks. Inter-antenna Interference (IAI) and Multi-user Interference (MUI) are two major factors that influence the performance of MU–MIMO system. IAI arises due to closely spaced multiple antennas at each User Terminal (UT), whereas MUI is generated when one UT comes in the vicinity of another UT of the same cellular network. IAI can be mitigated by the use of a pre-coding scheme such as Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and MUI can be cancelled through efficient Multi-user Detection (MUD) schemes. The highly complex and optimal Maximum Likelihood (ML) detector involves a large number of computations, especially when in massive structures. Therefore, the local search-based algorithm such as Likelihood Ascent Search (LAS) has been found to be a better alternative for mitigation of MUI, as it results in near optimal performance using lesser number of matrix computations. Most of the literature have been aimed at mitigating either IAI or MUI, whereas the proposed work presents SVD pre-coding and LAS MUD to mitigate both IAI and MUI. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme can attain near-optimal bit error rate (BER) performance with fewer computations.

scholarly journals Controlling Initial and Final Radii to Achieve a Low-Complexity Sphere Decoding Technique in MIMO Channels

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Eshagh Hosseini ◽  
Shahriar Shirvani Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Sphere Decoding ◽  
Mimo Channels ◽  
Threshold Factor ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Practical Constraints

In order to apply sphere decoding algorithm in multiple-input multiple-output communication systems and to make it feasible for real-time applications, its computational complexity should be decreased. To achieve this goal, this paper provides some useful insights into the effect of initial and the final sphere radii and estimating them effortlessly. It also discusses practical ways of initiating the algorithm properly and terminating it before the normal end of the process as well as the cost of these methods. Besides, a novel algorithm is introduced which utilizes the presented techniques according to a threshold factor which is defined in terms of the number of transmit antennas and the noise variance. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm offers a desirable performance and reasonable complexity satisfying practical constraints.

scholarly journals Phase Noise Effect on MIMO-OFDM Systems with Common and Independent Oscillators

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Chen ◽  
Hua Wang ◽  
Wei Fan ◽  
Yaning Zou ◽  
Andreas Wolfgang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Spatial Multiplexing ◽  
Ofdm Systems ◽  
Error Vector Magnitude ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Mimo Ofdm ◽  
Value Decomposition ◽  
Vector Magnitude

The effects of oscillator phase noises (PNs) on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are studied. It is shown that PNs of common oscillators at the transmitter and at the receiver have the same influence on the performance of (single-stream) beamforming MIMO-OFDM systems, yet different influences on spatial multiplexing MIMO-OFDM systems with singular value decomposition (SVD) based precoding/decoding. When each antenna is equipped with an independent oscillator, the PNs at the transmitter and at the receiver have different influences on beamforming MIMO-OFDM systems as well as spatial multiplexing MIMO-OFDM systems. Specifically, the PN effect on the transmitter (receiver) can be alleviated by having more transmit (receive) antennas for the case of independent oscillators. It is found that the independent oscillator case outperforms the common oscillator case in terms of error vector magnitude (EVM).

A Novel Convex Optimization for Receive Antenna Selection

2011 ◽  
Vol 186 ◽  
pp. 611-615
Author(s):  
Yong Wang ◽  
Hui Li
Keyword(s):  
Convex Optimization ◽  
Antenna Selection ◽  
Linear Equations ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Optimal Choice ◽  
Mimo Channels ◽  
Newton Step ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Receive Antenna

This paper proposes a new receive antenna selection algorithm based on the theory of convex optimization that improve the system performance over Rayleigh fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. The algorithm is based on approximated relaxed original optimization problem. The main effort in the approximated relaxed method is computing the Newton step for the centering problem, which consists of solving sets of linear equations constraints. The method produces not only a suboptimal choice of receive antennas, but also, a bound on how well the globally optimal choice does. The Monte-Carlo simulations show that the algorithm proposed can provide the performance very close to that of the optimal selection based on exhaustive search.

scholarly journals Analytical Computation of Information Rate for MIMO Channels

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jinbao Zhang ◽  
Zhenhui Tan ◽  
Song Chen
Keyword(s):  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Information Rate ◽  
Mimo Channels ◽  
Analytical Computation ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Improve Accuracy ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Concise Representation

Information rate for discrete signaling constellations is significant. However, the computational complexity makes information rate rather difficult to analyze for arbitrary fading multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. An analytical method is proposed to compute information rate, which is characterized by considerable accuracy, reasonable complexity, and concise representation. These features will improve accuracy for performance analysis with criterion of information rate.

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