scholarly journals Analysis of Multiuser Cellular Systems Over Heterogeneous Channels

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Harsh Tataria

<p>This thesis considers the analysis of current and future cellular communication systems. The main focus is on multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) antenna systems. The goal of this work is to characterize the achievable spectral efficiency of MU-MIMO systems, as well as to analyze the performance of practical, linear MU-MIMO transceiver structures in heterogeneous propagation environments. The analytical derivations in this thesis are based on the mathematical theory of finite and large dimensional random matrices. A collection of new general random matrix theory results, which permit efficient numerical evaluation are derived.  With downlink regularized zero-forcing (RZF) processing at a cellular base station (BS), a general framework for the analysis of the expected (average) signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) and ergodic sum spectral efficiency is developed for uncorrelated and semi-correlated Rayleigh fading, as well as uncorrelated Ricean fading propagation channels. In contrast to existing results, the presented analyses are extremely general, applicable to single-cellular, multi-cellular, as well as distributed antenna systems. These systems could consist of arbitrary numbers of transmit and receive antennas, link signal-to-noise-ratios (SNRs), equal and unequal transmit correlation structures, and line-of-sight (LoS) levels, respectively. Numerical results are presented for single-cellular, as well as for two-tier multi-cellular systems demonstrating the impact of novel BS coordination strategies to suppress dominant inter-cellular interference.   With dominant LoS directions in the propagation channel, the instantaneous downlink zero-forcing (ZF) SNR of a given terminal is analyzed. The ZF SNR is shown to be approximated by a gamma distribution for any number of transmit and receive antennas, link SNRs, and LoS levels. Furthermore, for moderately sized MU-MIMO systems, simplified instantaneous and ergodic sum spectral efficiency analyses are presented with RZF, ZF and matched-filter (MF) transmission on the downlink, and minimum-mean-squared-error, ZF and maximum-ratio combining (MRC) on the uplink, respectively. The simple nature of the derived expressions lead to the discovery of several valuable system level insights as a function of the contributing network parameters. Numerical results are presented for conventional and moderate MU-MIMO systems.   Considering downlink semi-correlated Rayleigh fading channels with spatial correlation at the BS, it is mathematically proven that common correlation patterns for each terminal predicts lower ergodic sum spectral efficiencies in comparison to terminal specific correlation patterns. Closed-form approximations for the expected SINR and ergodic sum spectral efficiency are derived for both MF and ZF precoding, demonstrating the sensitivity of unequal correlation structures on the expected signal, interference and noise powers, respectively. The presented numerical results provide a cautionary tale of the impact of unequal correlation patterns on MU-MIMO performance and the importance of modeling this phenomenon.  Finally, an approximate uplink performance analysis of large MU-MIMO systems with MRC and space-constrained uniform linear antenna arrays (ULA) is presented for semi-correlated Ricean fading channels. A space-constrained channel model is proposed, encapsulating the effects of unequal receive spatial correlation, unequal LoS levels, and unequal link gains for each terminal. The per-terminal and cell-wide ergodic sum spectral efficiencies are characterized and numerous practical special cases are presented. A limiting analysis of the ergodic per-terminal and cell-wide spectral efficiencies is also carried out, as the number of BS antennas grow without bound with a finite number of terminals and fixed physical dimensions of the ULA. Numerical results demonstrate the impact of space-constrained ULAs on the MU-MIMO system performance with variation in the LoS levels, correlation structures, physical array dimensions, and system size, respectively.</p>

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Harsh Tataria

<p>This thesis considers the analysis of current and future cellular communication systems. The main focus is on multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) antenna systems. The goal of this work is to characterize the achievable spectral efficiency of MU-MIMO systems, as well as to analyze the performance of practical, linear MU-MIMO transceiver structures in heterogeneous propagation environments. The analytical derivations in this thesis are based on the mathematical theory of finite and large dimensional random matrices. A collection of new general random matrix theory results, which permit efficient numerical evaluation are derived.  With downlink regularized zero-forcing (RZF) processing at a cellular base station (BS), a general framework for the analysis of the expected (average) signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) and ergodic sum spectral efficiency is developed for uncorrelated and semi-correlated Rayleigh fading, as well as uncorrelated Ricean fading propagation channels. In contrast to existing results, the presented analyses are extremely general, applicable to single-cellular, multi-cellular, as well as distributed antenna systems. These systems could consist of arbitrary numbers of transmit and receive antennas, link signal-to-noise-ratios (SNRs), equal and unequal transmit correlation structures, and line-of-sight (LoS) levels, respectively. Numerical results are presented for single-cellular, as well as for two-tier multi-cellular systems demonstrating the impact of novel BS coordination strategies to suppress dominant inter-cellular interference.   With dominant LoS directions in the propagation channel, the instantaneous downlink zero-forcing (ZF) SNR of a given terminal is analyzed. The ZF SNR is shown to be approximated by a gamma distribution for any number of transmit and receive antennas, link SNRs, and LoS levels. Furthermore, for moderately sized MU-MIMO systems, simplified instantaneous and ergodic sum spectral efficiency analyses are presented with RZF, ZF and matched-filter (MF) transmission on the downlink, and minimum-mean-squared-error, ZF and maximum-ratio combining (MRC) on the uplink, respectively. The simple nature of the derived expressions lead to the discovery of several valuable system level insights as a function of the contributing network parameters. Numerical results are presented for conventional and moderate MU-MIMO systems.   Considering downlink semi-correlated Rayleigh fading channels with spatial correlation at the BS, it is mathematically proven that common correlation patterns for each terminal predicts lower ergodic sum spectral efficiencies in comparison to terminal specific correlation patterns. Closed-form approximations for the expected SINR and ergodic sum spectral efficiency are derived for both MF and ZF precoding, demonstrating the sensitivity of unequal correlation structures on the expected signal, interference and noise powers, respectively. The presented numerical results provide a cautionary tale of the impact of unequal correlation patterns on MU-MIMO performance and the importance of modeling this phenomenon.  Finally, an approximate uplink performance analysis of large MU-MIMO systems with MRC and space-constrained uniform linear antenna arrays (ULA) is presented for semi-correlated Ricean fading channels. A space-constrained channel model is proposed, encapsulating the effects of unequal receive spatial correlation, unequal LoS levels, and unequal link gains for each terminal. The per-terminal and cell-wide ergodic sum spectral efficiencies are characterized and numerous practical special cases are presented. A limiting analysis of the ergodic per-terminal and cell-wide spectral efficiencies is also carried out, as the number of BS antennas grow without bound with a finite number of terminals and fixed physical dimensions of the ULA. Numerical results demonstrate the impact of space-constrained ULAs on the MU-MIMO system performance with variation in the LoS levels, correlation structures, physical array dimensions, and system size, respectively.</p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 3193-3200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanxue Xin ◽  
Rongqing Zhang ◽  
Pengfei Shi ◽  
Xin Su ◽  
Xuewu Zhang

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shichuan Ma ◽  
Lim Nguyen ◽  
Won Mee Jang ◽  
Yaoqing (Lamar) Yang

Self-encoded spread spectrum (SESS) is a novel communication technique that derives its spreading code from the randomness of the source stream rather than using conventional pseudorandom noise (PN) code. In this paper, we propose to incorporate SESS in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems as a means to combat against fading effects in wireless channels. Orthogonal space-time block-coded MIMO technique is employed to achieve spatial diversity, and the inherent temporal diversity in SESS modulation is exploited with iterative detection. Simulation results demonstrate that MIMO-SESS can effectively mitigate the channel fading effect such that the system can achieve a bit error rate of with very low signal-to-noise ratio, from 3.3 dB for a antenna configuration to just less than 0 dB for a configuration under Rayleigh fading. The performance improvement for the case is as much as 6.7 dB when compared to an MIMO PN-coded spread spectrum system.


Author(s):  
Muhammad Zarol Fitri Khairol Fauz ◽  
Elsheikh Mohamed Ahmed Elsheikh

Relying has in use for decades to tackle some of the challenges of wireless communication such as extending transmitting distance, transmitting over rough terrains. Diversity achieved through relaying is also a means to combat the random behavior of fading channels. In this work, effect of time and power allocation on relay performance is studied. The channel considered is the three-node channel with half-duplex constraint on the relay. The relaying technique assumed is decode-and-forward. Mutual information is used as the criteria to measure channel performance. There is half-duplex constraint and a total transmission power constraint on the relay source node and the relay node. A model is established to analyze the mutual information as a function of time allocation and power allocation in the case of AWGN regime. The model is extended to the Rayleigh fading scenario. In both AWGN and Rayleigh fading, results showed that the importance of relaying is more apparent when more resources are allocated to the relay. It was also shown that quality of the source to destination link has direct impact on the decision to relay or not to relay. Relatively good source to destination channel makes relaying less useful. The opposite is true for the other two links, namely the source to relay channel and the relay to destination channel. When these two channels are good, relaying becomes advantageous. When applied to cellular systems, we concluded that relaying is more beneficial to battery-operated mobile nodes than to base stations.


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