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Joint Tx-Rx beamforming design for multicarrier MIMO channels: a unified framework for convex optimization
- IEEE TRANS. SIGNAL PROCESSING
, 2003
"... This paper addresses the joint design of transmit and receive beamforming or linear processing (commonly termed linear precoding at the transmitter and equalization at the receiver) for multicarrier multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels under a variety of design criteria. Instead of consid ..."
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This paper addresses the joint design of transmit and receive beamforming or linear processing (commonly termed linear precoding at the transmitter and equalization at the receiver) for multicarrier multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels under a variety of design criteria. Instead of considering each design criterion in a separate way, we generalize the existing results by developing a unified framework based on considering two families of objective functions that embrace most reasonable criteria to design a communication system: Schur-concave and Schur-convex functions. Once the optimal structure of the transmit-receive processing is known, the design problem simplifies and can be formulated within the powerful framework of convex optimization theory, in which a great number of interesting design criteria can be easily accommodated and efficiently solved, even though closed-form expressions may not exist. From this perspective, we analyze a variety of design criteria, and in particular, we derive optimal beamvectors in the sense of having minimum average bit error rate (BER). Additional constraints on the peak-to-average ratio (PAR) or on the signal dynamic range are easily included in the design. We propose two multilevel water-filling practical solutions that perform very close to the optimal in terms of average BER with a low implementation complexity. If cooperation among the processing operating at different carriers is allowed, the performance improves significantly. Interestingly, with carrier cooperation, it turns out that the exact optimal solution in terms of average BER can be obtained in closed form.
An overview of limited feedback in wireless communication systems
- IEEE J. SEL. AREAS COMMUN
, 2008
"... It is now well known that employing channel adaptive signaling in wireless communication systems can yield large improvements in almost any performance metric. Unfortunately, many kinds of channel adaptive techniques have been deemed impractical in the past because of the problem of obtaining channe ..."
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It is now well known that employing channel adaptive signaling in wireless communication systems can yield large improvements in almost any performance metric. Unfortunately, many kinds of channel adaptive techniques have been deemed impractical in the past because of the problem of obtaining channel knowledge at the transmitter. The transmitter in many systems (such as those using frequency division duplexing) can not leverage techniques such as training to obtain channel state information. Over the last few years, research has repeatedly shown that allowing the receiver to send a small number of information bits about the channel conditions to the transmitter can allow near optimal channel adaptation. These practical systems, which are commonly referred to as limited or finite-rate feedback systems, supply benefits nearly identical to unrealizable perfect transmitter channel knowledge systems when they are judiciously designed. In this tutorial, we provide a broad look at the field of limited feedback wireless communications. We review work in systems using various combinations of single antenna, multiple antenna, narrowband, broadband, single-user, and multiuser technology. We also provide a synopsis of the role of limited feedback in the standardization of next generation wireless systems.
Generalized linear precoder and decoder design for MIMO channels using the weighted MMSE criterion,”
- IEEE Transactions on Communications,
, 2001
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Optimum power allocation for parallel Gaussian channels with arbitrary input distributions
- IEEE TRANS. INF. THEORY
, 2006
"... The mutual information of independent parallel Gaussian-noise channels is maximized, under an average power constraint, by independent Gaussian inputs whose power is allocated according to the waterfilling policy. In practice, discrete signaling constellations with limited peak-to-average ratios (m- ..."
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The mutual information of independent parallel Gaussian-noise channels is maximized, under an average power constraint, by independent Gaussian inputs whose power is allocated according to the waterfilling policy. In practice, discrete signaling constellations with limited peak-to-average ratios (m-PSK, m-QAM, etc.) are used in lieu of the ideal Gaussian signals. This paper gives the power allocation policy that maximizes the mutual information over parallel channels with arbitrary input distributions. Such policy admits a graphical interpretation, referred to as mercury/waterfilling, which generalizes the waterfilling solution and allows retaining some of its intuition. The relationship between mutual information of Gaussian channels and nonlinear minimum mean-square error (MMSE) proves key to solving the power allocation problem.
Transceiver optimization for multiuser MIMO systems
- IEEE Tran. on Signal Processing, 52(1):214 – 226
, 2004
"... Abstract—We consider the uplink of a multiuser system where the transmitters as well as the receiver are equipped with multiple antennas. Each user multiplexes its symbols by a linear precoder through its transmit antennas. We work with the system-wide mean squared error as the performance measure a ..."
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Abstract—We consider the uplink of a multiuser system where the transmitters as well as the receiver are equipped with multiple antennas. Each user multiplexes its symbols by a linear precoder through its transmit antennas. We work with the system-wide mean squared error as the performance measure and propose algorithms to find the jointly optimum linear precoders at each transmitter and linear decoders at the receiver. We first work with the case where the number of symbols to be transmitted by each user is given. We then investigate how the symbol rate should be chosen for each user with optimum transmitters and receivers. The convergence analysis of the algorithms is given, and numerical evidence that supports the analysis is presented. Index Terms—MMSE receivers, multiuser MIMO system, receiver beamforming, transmitter beamforming.
Optimum linear joint transmit-receive processing for MIMO channels with QoS constraints
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
, 2004
"... Abstract—This paper considers vector communications through multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels with a set of quality of service (QoS) requirements for the simultaneously established substreams. Linear transmit-receive processing (also termed linear precoder at the transmitter and linear ..."
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Abstract—This paper considers vector communications through multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels with a set of quality of service (QoS) requirements for the simultaneously established substreams. Linear transmit-receive processing (also termed linear precoder at the transmitter and linear equalizer at the receiver) is designed to satisfy the QoS constraints with minimum transmitted power (the exact conditions under which the problem becomes unfeasible are given). Although the original problem is a complicated nonconvex problem with matrix-valued variables, with the aid of majorization theory, we reformulate it as a simple convex optimization problem with scalar variables. We then propose a practical and efficient multilevel water-filling algorithm to optimally solve the problem for the general case of different QoS requirements. The optimal transmit-receive processing is shown to diagonalize the channel matrix only after a very specific prerotation of the data symbols. For situations in which the resulting transmit power is too large, we give the precise way to relax the QoS constraints in order to reduce the required power based on a perturbation analysis. We also propose a robust design under channel estimation errors that has an important interest for practical systems. Numerical results from simulations are given to support the mathematical development of the problem. Index Terms—Array signal processing, beamforming, joint transmit-receive equalization, linear precoding, MIMO channels, space-time filtering, water-filling. I.
Limited feedback unitary precoding for orthogonal space-time block codes
- IEEE Trans. Signal Processing
, 2005
"... Abstract—Orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) are a class of easily decoded space-time codes that achieve full diversity order in Rayleigh fading channels. OSTBCs exist only for certain numbers of transmit antennas and do not provide array gain like diversity techniques that exploit transmit c ..."
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Abstract—Orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) are a class of easily decoded space-time codes that achieve full diversity order in Rayleigh fading channels. OSTBCs exist only for certain numbers of transmit antennas and do not provide array gain like diversity techniques that exploit transmit channel information. When channel state information is available at the transmitter, though, precoding the space-time codeword can be used to support different numbers of transmit antennas and to improve array gain. Unfortunately, transmitters in many wireless systems have no knowledge about current channel conditions. This motivates limited feedback precoding methods such as channel quantization or antenna subset selection. This paper investigates a limited feedback approach that uses a codebook of precoding matrices known a priori to both the transmitter and receiver. The receiver chooses a matrix from the codebook based on current channel conditions and conveys the optimal codebook matrix to the transmitter over an error-free, zero-delay feedback channel. A criterion for choosing the optimal precoding matrix in the codebook is proposed that relates directly to minimizing the probability of symbol error of the precoded system. Low average distortion codebooks are derived based on the optimal codeword selection criterion. The resulting design is found to relate to the famous applied mathematics problem of subspace packing in the Grassmann manifold. Codebooks designed by this method are proven to provide full diversity order in Rayleigh fading channels. Monte Carlo simulations show that limited feedback precoding performs better than antenna subset selection. Index Terms—Diversity methods, Grassmannian subspace packing, MIMO systems, orthogonal space-time block coding,
Overcoming interference in spatial multiplexing MIMO cellular networks
- IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine
, 2007
"... Multi-antenna transmission and reception (known as MIMO) is widely touted as the key technology for enabling wireless broadband services, whose widespread success will require ten times higher spectral efficiency than current cellular systems, at ten times lower cost per bit. Spectrally efficient, i ..."
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Multi-antenna transmission and reception (known as MIMO) is widely touted as the key technology for enabling wireless broadband services, whose widespread success will require ten times higher spectral efficiency than current cellular systems, at ten times lower cost per bit. Spectrally efficient, inexpensive cellular systems are by definition densely populated and interference-limited. But spatial multiplexing MIMO systems – whose principal merit is a supposed dramatic increase in spectral efficiency – lose much of their effectiveness in high levels of interference. This paper overviews several approaches for handling interference in multicell MIMO systems. The discussion is applicable to any multi-antenna cellular network including 802.16e/WiMAX, 3GPP (HSDPA and 3GPP LTE) and 3GPP2 (1xEVDO). We argue that many of the traditional interference management techniques have limited usefulness (or are even counterproductive) when viewed in concert with MIMO. The problem of interference in MIMO systems is too large in scope to be handled with a single technique: in practice a combination of complementary countermeasures will be needed. We overview emerging system-level interference-reducing strategies based on cooperation, which will be important for overcoming interference in future spatial multiplexing cellular systems.
Robust design of linear MIMO transceivers
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
, 2005
"... This paper considers the robust design of a linear transceiver with imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter of a MIMO link. The framework embraces the design problem when CSI at the transmitter consists of the channel mean and covariance matrix or, equivalently, the channel esti ..."
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This paper considers the robust design of a linear transceiver with imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter of a MIMO link. The framework embraces the design problem when CSI at the transmitter consists of the channel mean and covariance matrix or, equivalently, the channel estimate and the estimation error covariance matrix. The design of the linear MIMO transceiver is based on a general cost function covering several well known performance criteria. In particular, two families are considered in detail: Schur-convex and Schur-concave functions. Approximations are used in the low SNR and high SNR regimes separately to obtain simple optimization problems that can be readily solved. Numerical examples show gains compared to other suboptimal methods. 1.
Joint transceiver design for MIMO communications using geometric mean decomposition
- IEEE Trans. Signal Process
, 2005
"... Abstract—In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the joint optimal transceiver design for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication systems. In this paper, we propose a joint transceiver design that combines the geometric mean decomposition (GMD) with either the conventional zer ..."
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Abstract—In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the joint optimal transceiver design for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication systems. In this paper, we propose a joint transceiver design that combines the geometric mean decomposition (GMD) with either the conventional zero-forcing VBLAST decoder or the more recent zero-forcing dirty paper precoder (ZFDP). Our scheme decomposes a MIMO channel into multiple identical parallel subchannels, which can make it rather convenient to design modulation/demodulation and coding/decoding schemes. Moreover, we prove that our scheme is asymptotically optimal for (moderately) high SNR in terms of both channel throughput and bit error rate (BER) performance. This desirable property is not shared by any other conventional schemes. We also consider the subchannel selection issues when some of the subchannels are too poor to be useful. Our scheme can also be combined with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for intersymbol interference (ISI) suppression. The effectiveness of our approaches has been validated by both theoretical analyses and numerical simulations. Index Terms—Channel capacity, dirty paper precoding, intersymbol interference suppression, joint transceiver design, matrix
