scholarly journals Scaling Laws of Scheduling Gain for Uplink Massive MIMO Systems: Is User Scheduling Still Beneficial for Massive MIMO?

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1650
Author(s):  
Taehyoung Kim ◽  
Sangjoon Park
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Information ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Scaling Laws ◽  
Matched Filter ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Moment Generating Function ◽  
Base Station ◽  
User Scheduling ◽  
Linear Receivers

In this paper, the scaling laws of scheduling gain and the feasibility of user scheduling for uplink massive multiple input–multiple output (MIMO) systems are investigated by analyzing the second moment of mutual information. We consider two well-known linear receivers of matched filter (MF) and zero-forcing (ZF). The exact distribution of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and its moment-generating function are first obtained, and the approximated variance of the mutual information for a user is derived as a closed form with a function of the number of antennas. The achievable scheduling gain under the optimal user scheduler is then derived using the Gaussianity of the sum rate. From the analyses and simulation results, it is found that the scheduling gain for the MF receiver increases with the number of base station (BS) antennas, while that for the ZF receiver decreases as the number of BS antennas increases, for most cases (except some impractical scenarios). Therefore, it is verified that user scheduling is still beneficial for the MF receiver while random user selection is sufficient for the ZF receiver in massive MIMO systems.

scholarly journals Analytical Performance Evaluation of Massive MIMO Techniques for SC-FDE Modulations

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 533
Author(s):  
Daniel Fernandes ◽  
Francisco Cercas ◽  
Rui Dinis
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Matched Filter ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Correlation Factor ◽  
Decision Feedback ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Single Carrier

In the Fifth Generation of telecommunications networks (5G), it is possible to use massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems, which require efficient receivers capable of reaching good performance values. MIMO systems can also be extended to massive MIMO (mMIMO) systems, while maintaining their, sometimes exceptional, performance. However, we must be aware that this implies an increase in the receiver complexity. Therefore, the use of mMIMO in 5G and future generations of mobile receivers will only be feasible if they use very efficient algorithms, so as to maintain their excellent performance, while coping with increasing and critical user demands. Having this in mind, this paper presents and compares three types of receivers used in MIMO systems, for further use with mMIMO systems, which use Single-Carrier with Frequency-Domain Equalization (SC-FDE), Iterative Block Decision Feedback Equalization (IB-DFE) and Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) techniques. This paper presents and compares the theoretical and simulated performance values for these receivers in terms of their Bit Error Rate (BER) and correlation factor. While one of the receivers studied in this paper achieves a BER performance nearly matching the Matched Filter Bound (MFB), the other receivers (IB-DFE and MRC) are more than 1 dB away from MFB. The results obtained in this paper can help the development of ongoing research involving hybrid analog/digital receivers for 5G and future generations of mobile communications.

scholarly journals A Survey on Massive MIMO Systems in Presence of Channel and Hardware Impairments

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Mokhtari ◽  
Maryam Sabbaghian ◽  
Rui Dinis
Keyword(s):  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Aging Effects ◽  
Hardware Impairments ◽  
Single Carrier ◽  
Input Multiple Output

Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology is one of the promising technologies for fifth generation (5G) cellular communications. In this technology, each cell has a base station (BS) with a large number of antennas, allowing the simultaneous use of the same resources (e.g., frequency and/or time slots) by multiple users of a cell. Therefore, massive MIMO systems can bring very high spectral and power efficiencies. However, this technology faces some important issues that need to be addressed. One of these issues is the performance degradation due to hardware impairments, since low-cost RF chains need to be employed. Another issue is the channel estimation and channel aging effects, especially in fast mobility environments. In this paper we will perform a comprehensive study on these two issues considering two of the most promising candidate waveforms for massive MIMO systems: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and single-carrier frequency domain processing (SC-FDP). The studies and the results show that hardware impairments and inaccurate channel knowledge can degrade the performance of massive MIMO systems extensively. However, using suitable low complex estimation and compensation techniques and also selecting a suitable waveform can reduce these effects.

scholarly journals Compressive Sensing Based Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO Communication Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athar Waseem ◽  
Aqdas Naveed ◽  
Sardar Ali ◽  
Muhammad Arshad ◽  
Haris Anis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Compressive Sensing ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Sampling Theorem ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Mimo Channels ◽  
Pilot Design

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is believed to be a key technology to get 1000x data rates in wireless communication systems. Massive MIMO occupies a large number of antennas at the base station (BS) to serve multiple users at the same time. It has appeared as a promising technique to realize high-throughput green wireless communications. Massive MIMO exploits the higher degree of spatial freedom, to extensively improve the capacity and energy efficiency of the system. Thus, massive MIMO systems have been broadly accepted as an important enabling technology for 5th Generation (5G) systems. In massive MIMO systems, a precise acquisition of the channel state information (CSI) is needed for beamforming, signal detection, resource allocation, etc. Yet, having large antennas at the BS, users have to estimate channels linked with hundreds of transmit antennas. Consequently, pilot overhead gets prohibitively high. Hence, realizing the correct channel estimation with the reasonable pilot overhead has become a challenging issue, particularly for frequency division duplex (FDD) in massive MIMO systems. In this paper, by taking advantage of spatial and temporal common sparsity of massive MIMO channels in delay domain, nonorthogonal pilot design and channel estimation schemes are proposed under the frame work of structured compressive sensing (SCS) theory that considerably reduces the pilot overheads for massive MIMO FDD systems. The proposed pilot design is fundamentally different from conventional orthogonal pilot designs based on Nyquist sampling theorem. Finally, simulations have been performed to verify the performance of the proposed schemes. Compared to its conventional counterparts with fewer pilots overhead, the proposed schemes improve the performance of the system.

scholarly journals Sum-Rate of Multi-User MIMO Systems with Multi-Cell Pilot Contamination in Correlated Rayleigh Fading Channel

Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menghan Wang ◽  
Dongming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Rayleigh Fading ◽  
Gaussian Approximation ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Moment Generating Function ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Pilot Contamination ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Sum Rate

This paper presents some exact results on the sum-rate of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems subject to multi-cell pilot contamination under correlated Rayleigh fading. With multi-cell multi-user channel estimator, we give the lower bound of the sum-rate. We derive the moment generating function (MGF) of the sum-rate and then obtain the closed-form approximations of the mean and variance of the sum-rate. Then, with Gaussian approximation, we study the outage performance of the sum-rate. Furthermore, considering the number of antennas at base station becomes infinite, we investigate the asymptotic performance of the sum-rate. Theoretical results show that compared to MU-MIMO system with perfect channel estimation and no pilot contamination, the variance of the sum-rate of the considered system decreases very quickly as the number of antennas increases.

scholarly journals Low-Complexity Joint Channel Estimation for Multi-User mmWave Massive MIMO Systems

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Jianhe Du ◽  
Jiaqi Li ◽  
Jing He ◽  
Yalin Guan ◽  
Heyun Lin
Keyword(s):  
Channel Estimation ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Estimation Algorithm ◽  
Step Length ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Estimation Accuracy ◽  
Input Multiple Output

For multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the precise acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is a huge challenge. With the increase of the number of antennas at the base station (BS), the traditional channel estimation techniques encounter the problems of pilot training overhead and computational complexity increasing dramatically. In this paper, we develop a step-length optimization-based joint iterative scheme for multi-user mmWave massive MIMO systems to improve channel estimation performance. The proposed estimation algorithm provides the BS with full knowledge of all channel parameters involved in up- and down-links. Compared with existing algorithms, the proposed algorithm has higher channel estimation accuracy with low complexity. Moreover, the proposed scheme performs well even with a small number of training sequences and a large number of users. Simulation results are shown to demonstrate the performance of the proposed channel estimation algorithm.

scholarly journals Massive MIMO Systems for 5G

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Chataut ◽  
Robert Akl
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Visible Light Communication ◽  
User Scheduling ◽  
Access Technology ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Simple Processing

The global bandwidth shortage in the wireless communication sector has motivated the study and exploration of wireless access technology known as massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO). Massive MIMO is one of the key enabling technology for next-generation networks, which groups together antennas at both transmitter and the receiver to provide high spectral and energy efficiency using relatively simple processing. Obtaining a better understating of the massive MIMO system to overcome the fundamental issues such as pilot contamination, channel estimation, precoding, user scheduling, energy efficiency, and signal detection is vital for the successful deployment of 5G and beyond networks. Some of the recent trends in massive MIMO are terahertz communication, ultra massive MIMO (UM-MIMO), visible light communication (VLC), machine learning, and deep learning. 

scholarly journals Dynamically Subarray-Connected Hybrid Precoding Scheme for Multiuser Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Guangyan Liao ◽  
Feng Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Millimeter Wave ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mean Squared Error ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Hybrid Precoding ◽  
Minimum Mean Squared Error ◽  
Specific Subset ◽  
Input Multiple Output

Hybrid precoding is widely used in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, most prior work on hybrid precoding focused on the fully connected hybrid architectures and the subconnected but fixed architectures in which each radio frequency (RF) chain is connected to a specific subset of the antennas. The limited work shows that dynamic subarray architectures address the tradeoff between achievable spectral efficiency and energy efficiency of mmWave massive MIMO systems. Nevertheless, in the multiuser hybrid precoding systems, the existing dynamic subarray schemes ignore the fairness of users and the problem of user selection. In this paper, we propose a novel multiuser hybrid precoding scheme for dynamic subarray architectures. Firstly, we select a multiuser set among all users according to the analog effective channel information of the base station (BS) and then design the subset of the antennas to each RF by the fairness antenna-partitioning algorithm. Finally, the optimal analog precoding vector is designed according to each subarray, and the digital precoding is designed by the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) criterion. The simulation results show that the performance advantages of the proposed multiuser hybrid precoding scheme for dynamic subarray architectures.

scholarly journals Experimental Analysis of Concentrated versus Distributed Massive MIMO in an Indoor Cell at 3.5 GHz

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 1646
Author(s):  
Jesús R. Pérez ◽  
Óscar Fernández ◽  
Luis Valle ◽  
Abla Bedoui ◽  
Mohamed Et-tolba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Access Network ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Mimo Channel ◽  
Power Imbalance ◽  
Channel Measurements

This paper presents a measurement-based comparison between distributed and concentrated massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which are called D-mMIMO and C-mMIMO systems, in an indoor environment considering a 400 MHz bandwidth centered at 3.5 GHz. In both cases, we have considered an array of 64 antennas in the base station and eight simultaneously active users. The work focuses on the characterization of both schemes in the up-link, considering the analysis of the sum capacity, the total spectral efficiency (SE) achievable by using the zero forcing (ZF) combining method, as well as the user fairness. The effect of the power imbalance between the different transmitters or user terminal (UT) locations, and thus, the benefits of performing an adequate power control are also investigated. The differences between the C-mMIMO and D-mMIMO channel performances are explained through the observation of the structure of their respective measured channel matrices through parameters such as the condition number or the power imbalance between the channels established by each UT. The channel measurements have been performed in the frequency domain, emulating a massive MIMO system in the framework of a time-domain duplex orthogonal frequency multiple access network (TDD-OFDM-MIMO). The characterization of the MIMO channel is based on the virtual array technique for both C-mMIMO and D-mMIMO systems. The deployment of the C-mMIMO and D-MIMO systems, as well as the distribution of users in the measurement environment, has been arranged as realistically as possible, avoiding the movement of people or machines.

A companding approach for PAPR suppression in OFDM based massive MIMO system

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Kumar Yadav ◽  
Pritam Keshari Sahoo ◽  
Yogendra Kumar Prajapati
Keyword(s):  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
Mimo System ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Base Station ◽  
Convex Optimization Problem ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Mimo Ofdm

Abstract Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based massive multiuser (MU) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system is popularly known as high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) issue. The OFDM-based massive MIMO system exhibits large number of antennas at Base Station (BS) due to the use of large number of high-power amplifiers (HPA). High PAPR causes HPAs to work in a nonlinear region, and hardware cost of nonlinear HPAs are very high and also power inefficient. Hence, to tackle this problem, this manuscript suggests a novel scheme based on the joint MU precoding and PAPR minimization (PP) expressed as a convex optimization problem solved by steepest gradient descent (GD) with μ-law companding approach. Therefore, we develop a new scheme mentioned to as MU-PP-GDs with μ-law companding to minimize PAPR by compressing and enlarging of massive MIMO OFDM signals simultaneously. At CCDF = 10−3, the proposed scheme (MU-PP-GDs with μ-law companding for Iterations = 100) minimizes the PAPR to 3.70 dB which is better than that of MU-PP-GDs, (iteration = 100) as shown in simulation results.

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