随机波束成型多用户分集系统反馈量化研究

移动通信系统中，下行的随机波束成型多用户分集利用了用户信道彼此独立随机衰落的特性，通过合理调度用户，系统可获得较好的系统短时吞吐率及用户公平度性能，是一种简单高效的多天线多用户分集系统方案。这种技术需要各个用户向基站反馈量化的信道质量信息，本文提出了一种简便易行的最优量化反馈门限的求解方法，并定量分析了反馈量化对于这种多用户分集系统性能的影响。文中分析表明，系统按照用户数、信噪比等系统参数取得最优反馈门限，可以在反馈量与系统吞吐率之间取得良好的折中关系。反馈门限对系统参数敏感程度的研究表明，在实际系统设计时，系统有必要根据运行时系统参数的变化情况调整所用的反馈量化门限。     

多天线系统中的多用户分集方案的性能分析及比较

在多天线多用户无线通信系统中,可以利用用户之间彼此独立的随机衰落信道的特点,结合随机波束成型技术,或者空间分集技术,或者天线选择技术,获得多用户分集增益。然而不同多用户分集方案的系统性能不尽相同。该文分析了在多输入单输出(MISO)信道中目前几种典型的多用户分集方案的性能,给出系统吞吐率的定量表达式,并综合比较了不同用户数和不同天线数对各种多用户分集方案性能的影响,为实际多天线多用户系统设计提供了有益的参考。     

基于信道反馈的MIMO-OFDM系统多用户分集研究

利用包含信道质量的反馈信息,多用户分集能显著提高无线通信系统的性能。然而,在多载波多天线(MIMO-OFDM)的架构下, 反馈所有用户的所有信道质量信息(CQI)将占据大量的无线资源,从而降低了频谱效率,因此各种有限信道反馈算法被提出来减少系统的反馈开销。该文主要研究了基于两种典型的有限信道反馈的多用户分集增益,并与理想反馈进行了对比。系统平均频谱效率数学表达式的推导考虑了可选调制方式有限的特性,更符合实际。仿真用于评估各种反馈算法下的多用户分集性能,其结果与理论分析相当匹配。并且只要恰当地选取反馈参数,有限信道反馈算法可以在不损失多用户分集增益的前提下,极大的降低反馈开销,这为设计实际系统的信道反馈提供了参考。     

空间相关莱斯衰落信道下基于部分信道信息的多用户预编码与调度算法

在空间相关的莱斯衰落信道模型下,针对多用户MIMO(Multiple-Input Multiple-Output)系统潜在的多用户分集增益和空间分集增益,该文提出了一种基于部分信道信息的多用户预编码与调度算法。结合部分瞬时信道信息和统计信息,利用约束最大似然估计对各用户信道矢量进行估计,然后利用估计的各用户信道调度多个用户进行预编码。仿真结果表明,该方案以较少的反馈开销,获得了较大的性能增益。     

存在估计误差的有限反馈MIMO性能分析

考虑的是利用有限反馈技术的下行多用户多天线系统。接收端通过信道估计获得信道状态信息,采用随机矢量量化信道信息并反馈码子的序号,发送端利用部分信道信息,采用波束成型的预编码技术实现多用户数据传输。考虑接收端信道估计存在误差,并对由此带来的系统性能影响进行分析,给出吞吐率损失的上界,以及使有限反馈系统保持固定空分复用增益,信道估计误差方差的限制条件和反馈比特数随发送功率的变化关系。     

OFDM系统中信道有限反馈的门限设置研究

基于多用户下行OFDM系统资源分配及有限反馈理论的研究,该文推导了基于门限设置的信道有限反馈的容量及容量损失的数学表达式,并提出了3种信道有限反馈的门限设置方案。这3种方案利用多用户分集,从反馈中断概率、容量损失及反馈效用3个角度来设置门限。数值计算结果表明,通过适当的门限设置,可以在相对较少的容量损失下,较大程度地减少反馈量,使得下行多用户OFDM资源分配算法在实际中可以有效应用。     

基于相关信道统计的有限速率反馈波束形成

针对实际MIMO系统无线信道存在的空域相关性,提出了一种基于相关信道统计的改进算法.基于此算法,并采用随机码本量化信道信息形成一种新波束形成方案,它只需要有限速率反馈部分信道信息,可以同时获得系统多用户分集增益和阵列增益,解决了常规波束形成需要大量信道反馈信息和相干波束形成系统性能对信道瞬时变化信息敏感的问题.仿真结果表明,提出方案在相关信道下相当有效,其性能超过常规波束形成,即使在有限反馈限制条件下,其性能亦接近相干机会波束的性能,仅有0.2 bit/s·Hz-1的性能损失.     

异步CDMA移动通信系统中采用分集接收的多用户检测器

在CDMA移动通信系统中,多址接入干扰可以通过多用户检测技术来消除,而分集接收可以减小信道衰落的影响。本文给出了一类应用解相关检测、天线分集、RAKE多径分集技术的接收机,并对这一类接收机的性能做了分析。结果表明,在上行链路中,应用多用户检测和分集接收能够极大地提高接收机的性能。     

多用户空间分集合并系统的鲁棒性研究

分析了MIMO-MRC和最优合并系统在非理想信状态信息条件下多用户分集性能的鲁棒性。考虑存在多个共信道干扰,采用多用户平均容量差（RMUD）分析了瑞利平衰落信道中两种分集合并系统的多用户分集性能对信道估计误差的鲁棒性。研究结果表明,当不存在共信道干扰时OC系统的鲁棒性优于MIMO-MRC系统,而当存在CCI时则MIMO-MRC系统优于OC系统。     

Rayleigh衰落信道中的CDMA多用户分集接收性能

本文针对频率选择性Ｒａｙｌｅｉｇｈ衰落信道，设计了一种ＣＤＭＡ多用户检测器分集结构，通过该结构，高斯信道多用户检测算法可以有效地应用到Ｒａｙｌｅｉｇｈ衰落信道中，仿真结果表明，分集合并实现的多用户中以显著改善衰落信道的误码性能，其处理多址干扰能力并不因分集而受到影响，另外，本文还对不同的合并以及不同的检测地作了性能上的比较。     

On channel quantization and feedback strategies for multiuser MIMO-OFDM downlink systems

We consider a multiuser MIMO-OFDM downlink system with single antenna mobile terminals (MTs) where channel state information at the base station is provided through limited uplink feedback (FB). In order to reduce the FB rate and signal processing complexity, the available bandwidth is divided into resource blocks (RBs) whose number of subcarriers reflects the coherence bandwidth of the channel. This approach is very common in the standardization of 4th generation wireless communication systems and justifies an independent channel quantization per RB. Within this framework the paper contains two main contributions. Firstly we provide joint conditions on the channel coherence bandwidth and the FB rate per RB that allow for a simpler quantization of the RB channel matrix (space-frequency) by a space vector, causing negligible performance loss in terms of system achievable throughput. This is accomplished after deriving a new metric for codebook design in RB channel quantization that exploits spatial and frequency correlation. As a second contribution we investigate the trade-off between accurate channel knowledge and frequency/multiuser diversity. It is seen that even for a moderate number of MTs in the network, concentrating all the available FB bits in characterizing only one RB provides a significant gain in system throughput over a more classical distributed approach and this result is validated both analytically and by simulations.     

Multiuser receiver scheme for full‐rate space–time coded CDMA system with imperfect estimation

By introducing a full‐rate space–time coding (STC) scheme, a synchronous CDMA (code division multiple access) system with full‐rate STC is given, and the corresponding uplink performance is investigated in Rayleigh fading channel with imperfect estimation. Considering that existing STC‐CDMA system has high decoding complexity, low‐complexity multiuser receiver schemes are developed for perfect and imperfect estimations, respectively. The schemes can make full use of the complex orthogonality of STC to reduce the high decoding complexity of the existing scheme, and have linear decoding complexity compared with the existing scheme with exponential decoding complexity. Moreover, the proposed schemes can achieve almost the same performance as the existing scheme. Compared with full‐diversity STC‐CDMA, the given full‐rate STC‐CDMA can achieve full data rate, low complexity, and partial diversity, and form efficient spatial interleaving. Thus, the concatenation of channel coding can effectively compensate for the performance loss due to partial diversity. Simulation results show that the full‐rate STC‐CDMA has lower bit error rate (BER) than full‐diversity STC‐CDMA systems under the same system throughput and concatenation of channel code. Moreover, the system BER with imperfect estimation are worse than that with perfect estimation due to the estimation error, which implies that the developed multiuser receiver schemes are valid and reasonable. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Opportunistic Beamforming over Rayleigh Channels with Partial Side Information

In recent years, diversity techniques have evolved into highly attractive technology for wireless communications in different forms. For instance, the channel fluctuations of the users in a network are exploited as multiuser diversity by scheduling the user with the best signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). When fading is slow, beamforming at a multiple antenna transmitter is used to induce artificial channel fluctuations to ensure multiuser diversity in the network. Such a beamforming scheme is called opportunistic beamforming since the transmitter uses random beamforming to artificially induce opportunism in the network [1]. Opportunism requires a large number of users in the system in order to reach the performance of the true beamforming that uses perfect channel state information (CSI). In this paper we investigate the benefit of having partial CSI at an opportunistic transmitter. In the investigation, we focus on the maximum normalized SNR scheduling where user?s feedback consists of SNR relative to its channel gain. We show that opportunism can be beneficially used to increase the average throughput of the system. Simulations support the analytical average throughput results obtained as the amount of CSI and the number of users vary.     

On Scheduling for Multiple-Antenna Wireless Networks Using Contention-Based Feedback

Multiuser diversity gain is an effective technique for improving the performance of wireless networks. This gain can be exploited by scheduling the users with the best current channel conditions. However, this kind of scheduling requires that the base station (or access point) knows some kind of channel quality indicator (CQI) information for every user in the system. When the wireless link lacks channel reciprocity, each user must feed back this CQI information to the base station. The required feedback load makes exploiting multiuser diversity extremely difficult when the number of users becomes large. To alleviate this problem, this paper considers a contention-based CQI feedback where only users whose channel gains are larger than a threshold are allowed to transmit their CQI information through a spread-spectrum based contention channel. Considering the capture effect in this contention channel, it is shown that i) the multiuser diversity gain can be exploited regardless of the number of transmit antennas at the base station and ii) the total system throughput exponentially approaches that of the full feedback scheme as the spreading code length of the contention channel linearly increases. In addition, it is also shown that multiuser diversity can be maintained with the feedback delay of time-variant channels. We also consider the issue of differentiated rate scheduling, in which the base station gives different rates to different subsets of mobiles. In this scenario, mobiles feed back their CQI with some access probability, and we show this technique causes only a negligible throughput loss compared to the case without supporting differentiated rate.     

Zero‐forcing and codebook based beamforming scheme for practical usage of multiuser MIMO‐OFDM with uplink channel sounding

Since the concept of the multiuser multiple input multiple output (MU‐MIMO) system has been introduced for enhancement of capacity and flexibility, it has been accepted in various wireless standards. To enjoy the benefits of the MU‐MIMO system, full or partial channel information is necessary at the transmitter, but how to use the full or partial feedback information in the practical system perspective has not been investigated well. In this paper, we analyze the interference of full usage concurrent transmission codebook based on the MU‐MIMO systems and also investigate the usage of channel information for a codebook based scheme and a zero‐forcing beamforming (ZFBF) scheme. Based on the analytic results, we propose two adaptive schemes for the practical usage perspective in MU‐MIMO‐OFDM systems. Firstly, we propose an adjustable uplink channel sounding scheme, which depends on the number of users in a given cell/sector in frequency division duplexing system, with ZFBF MU‐MIMO‐OFDM systems. Secondly, we propose an adaptive switching scheme, which depends on signal‐to‐noise ratio, between the codebook based scheme and the ZFBF scheme. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated with computer simulations, and the simulation results show that the proposed scheme provides the enhanced throughput over entire signal‐to‐noise‐ratio regions. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

MIMO Broadcast Scheduling with Limited Feedback

We consider multiuser scheduling with limited feedback of partial channel state information in MIMO broadcast channels. By using spatial multiplexing at the base station (BS) and antenna selection for each user, we propose a multiuser scheduling method that allocates independent information streams from all M transmit antennas to the M most favorable users with the highest signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). A close approximation of the achievable sum-rate throughput for the proposed method is obtained and shown to match the simulation results very well. Moreover, two reduced feedback scheduling approaches are proposed. In the first approach, which we shall refer to as selected feedback scheduling, the users are selected based on their SINR compared to a predesigned threshold. Only those selected users are allowed to feed back limited information to the BS. The resultant feedback load and achievable throughput are derived. It will then be demonstrated that with a proper choice of the threshold, the feedback load can be greatly reduced with a negligible performance loss. The second reduced feedback scheduling approach employs quantization for each user, in which only few bits of quantized SINR are fed back to the BS. Performance analysis will show that even with only 1-bit quantization, the proposed quantized feedback scheduling approach can exploit the multiuser diversity at the expense of slight decrease of throughput.     

Unquantized and uncoded channel state information feedback in multiple-antenna multiuser systems

We propose a channel state information (CSI) feedback scheme based on unquantized and uncoded (UQ-UC) transmission. We consider a system where a mobile terminal obtains the downlink CSI and feeds it back to the base station using an uplink feedback channel. If the downlink channel is an independent Rayleigh fading channel, then the CSI may be viewed as an output of a complex independent identically distributed Gaussian source. Further, if the uplink feedback channel is an additive white Gaussian noise channel, and the downlink CSI is perfectly known at the mobile terminal, it can be shown that UQ-UC CSI transmission (that incurs zero delay) is optimal in that it achieves the same minimum mean-squared error distortion as a scheme that optimally (in the Shannon sense) quantizes and encodes the CSI, while theoretically incurring infinite delay. Since the UQ-UC transmission is suboptimal on correlated wireless channels, we propose a simple linear CSI feedback receiver that can be used to improve the performance of UQ-UC transmission while still retaining the attractive zero-delay feature. We provide bounds on the performance of such UQ-UC CSI feedback and study its impact on the achievable information rates. Furthermore, we explore its application and performance in multiple-antenna multiuser wireless systems, and also propose a corresponding pilot-assisted channel-state estimation scheme.     

非理想状态信息下SC-FDMA上行链路的信道调度

信道依赖调度(CDS)通过在信道里使用多用户分集和频率选择性来增加蜂窝系统的数据吞吐量,主要研究非理想信道状态信息(CSI)对CDS的影响。具体来说,当CSI有反馈延时,分析具有未编码自适应调制及CDS的上行链路单载波频分多址(SC-FDMA)系统的数据吞吐量。频域资源分配采用集中式和分布式的子载波映射方案。通过仿真可以看到在应用CDS时,集中式的子载波映射产生最高的总数据吞吐量,然而,当信道迅速变化时,集中式映射对CSI的质量以及信道容量增益的迅速减少非常灵敏。对于高机动性的用户来说,具有静态轮询调度方案的分布式映射更加合适。     

A Distributed Opportunistic Access Scheme and its Application to OFDMA Systems

Multiuser systems can provide multiuser diversity gains by assigning channels to users with higher channel gains. To avoid the extensive information exchange with the access point for the uplink access in centralized approaches, we propose in this paper a distributed opportunistic access scheme. Through a judicious design of a novel backoff mechanism to utilize the channel information and reduce collisions, significant multiuser diversity gains are achieved. To a user, the higher the channel gain is, the smaller the backoff time-slot and, hence, the higher the access priority of that user is. In addition, for heterogeneous systems, our proposed scheme can realize multiuser diversity gains and achieve fairness among the users at the same time. Finally, we design two distributed opportunistic access schemes for OFDMA systems. Users contend on all sub-channels in the first scheme and only on several strongest sub-channels in the second scheme. Compared with traditional centralized OFDMA systems and other distributed access schemes, our proposed schemes reduce overhead and achieve a higher throughput.