Performance Analysis of Multiuser DS-CDMA in MIMO Systems Over Rayleigh Fading Channels

The performance of space-time transmit diversity is examined in a multiuser direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system over fast- and slow-fading channels. The underlying space-time system employs transmit antennas and receive antennas at the mobile user and receiver base station, respectively. We consider the performance of the space-time multiuser system when using the linear decorrelator detector to combat the effect of multiuser interference. In our analysis, we derive a closed-form expression for the probability of bit error for both fast- and slow-fading channels. These theoretical results are shown to be very accurate when compared to system simulations. Both simulations and theoretical results prove that, regardless of the system load, the full diversity order of for fast-fading channels and for slow-fading channels is always maintained, and only a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) loss is incurred. This SNR loss is proved to be a function of only the number of users (i.e., level of interference) and independent of the number of transmit and/or receive antennas. Using our theoretical results, we show that the loss in SNR from the single-user bound can be well approximated by , where represents the level of multiuser interference.     

Iterative Frequency Domain Joint-over-Antenna Detection in Multiuser MIMO

Multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems have great potential in improving information rate, diversity and resistance to against interference. The primary objective of this paper is to derive for broadband signaling a new iterative frequency domain (FD) multiuser MIMO signal detection technique for joint-over-antenna (JA) detection. The proposed detector is based on soft-cancellation and minimum mean square error (MMSE) filtering, followed by maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) detector to detect several of each users transmit antennas. The purpose of jointly detecting several transmit antennas is to preserve the degrees of freedom (DoF) for MMSE. Computational complexities with FD and its time domain (TD) counterpart are evaluated in this paper, and it is shown that FD requires significantly lower complexity than TD. Numerical results show that JA significantly outperforms the receiver that detects transmit antenna signals antenna-by- antenna (AA). The proposed iterative FD JA technique achieves larger performance gains compared to AA when the total number of transmit antennas is larger than the number of receiver antennas, as well as in the presence of spatial correlation.     

Joint Space-Frequency Iterative Interference Suppression in Multiuser MIMO-OFDM Systems

In uplink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, inter-user interference includes co-channel interference (CCI) due to spatial multiplexing and inter-carrier interference (ICI) due to carrier-frequency offset (CFO). In this letter, a space-frequency joint processing scheme is proposed to suppress the two-dimensional interference alternatively and iteratively. Moreover, by the studies of convergence behavior of iterations, a sufficient condition for convergence is presented. The theoretical analysis and simulation results both show that this iterative scheme can effectively suppress inter-user interference with low complexity.     

Performance investigation of STBC-OFDM with code-division multiplexing in time-varying channels

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is sensitive to carrier frequency offset and channel estimation error, which destroy the subcarrier orthogonality and give rise to intercarrier interference (ICI). This paper addresses the performance degradation due to imperfect parameters in an orthogonal frequency and code division multiplexing (OFDM-CDM) system with multiple transmit antennas. For the performance evaluation, the average bit error rate (BER) impairment due to imperfect channel information and frequency offset is investigated taking into account the effect of time-varying channels. Derived results show that a space-time block coded (STBC) OFDM-CDM system experiences a severe BER degradation regardless of the number of users.     

空时分组码MC-CDMA系统多用户检测

本文研究了在频率选择性瑞利衰落信道中工作于时分双工(TDD)模式的多载波码分多址(MC-CDMA)系统上行链路,在用户终端处使用两个发射天线,采用基于空时分组码的发射分集。考虑对应于子载波的衰落系数是信道冲激响应的离散傅里叶变换,给出了基于空时分组码的MC-CDMA系统上行链路信号模型。采用适用于同步CDMA系统的低代价Steiner估计器来进行基于空时分组码的MC-CDMA系统的信道估计,每个用户终端的两个发射天线各分配一个midamble。研究了基于空时分组码的MC-CDMA系统的解相关多用户检测、最小均方误差(MMSE)多用户检测,进行联合的多用户检测和空时码解码。仿真结果验证了上述模型及算法的有效性。     

Performance Analysis of Multiuser Diversity in MIMO Systems with Antenna Selection

In this paper, a framework is presented to analyze the performance of multiuser diversity (MUD) in multiuser point-to-multipoint (PMP) MIMO systems with antenna selection. Based on this framework, the tight closed-form expressions of outage capacity and average symbol error rate are derived for the multiuser transmit antenna selection with maximal-ratio combining (TAS/MRC) system, by which we show how and with what characteristics antenna selection gains, MIMO antenna configurations and fading gains impact on the system performance, with an emphasis on the study of multiuser diversity influence. From both theoretical and simulation results, our study shows that in multiuser PMP TAS/MRC systems an diversity order equals to the product of the number of transmit antennas, number of receive antennas and number of users can be achieved; what's more, users plays a key role in the system performance and can be viewed as equivalent 'virtual" transmit antennas, which is the source of the multiuser diversity inherent exists in the multiuser system. This kind of diversity can be efficiently extracted in the design of multiantenna systems.     

多用户MIMO系统下行链路的随机多波束复用技术

该文提出了一种随机多波束多用户复用技术,充分利用多用户分集以及基站多天线的空间自由度来提高系统吞吐量。不同于传统的随机波束形成技术,该技术首先在给定预编码码本内随机选取一个码字,然后调度多个空分复用用户以及其余预编码矩阵。该文采用了一种逐次调度的方式,第一次训练调度一个主发送用户并确定一个次发送预编码矩阵,通过第二次训练选择次发送用户,这种方式能以很小的反馈开销有效控制复用用户之间的相互干扰。同时,该文所提技术能进一步推广到用户具有不同天线配置的异构情形。仿真结果表明,该文技术在具有不同相关性的信道环境下都能获得较优的系统吞吐量。     

MIMO-OFDM with insufficient cyclic prefix

For orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), cyclic prefix (CP) should be longer than the length of channel impulse response, resulting in a loss of bandwidth efficiency. In this letter, the CP reconstruction (CPR) technique is first applied to a multi-input multi-output (MIMO)-OFDM system with insufficient CP. The intercarrier interference (ICI) from multiple transmit antennas is so large for MIMO system that it can not be sufficiently suppressed with the conventional CPR procedure used in single-input single-output (SISO) system. A new minimum mean-square error (MMSE) equalization and ordering process is proposed for MIMO system to suppress the ICI during the CPR procedure. By applying the proposed CPR algorithm to MIMO-OFDM system, we can obtain both the benefits of multiplexing gain and spectral efficiency gain.     

基于分布式天线的全双工中继系统最大化和速率波束成形设计

基于分布式天线的全双工中继系统结合了全双工中继两跳同时同频传输的能力和分布式天线高效覆盖的特性,为提升小区边缘和严重阴影衰落区域的频谱效率提供了一种有效途径。在自干扰抵消非理想的多用户场景下,利用分布式多天线波束成形可实现对系统中自干扰和多用户干扰的联合抑制。为此,该文首先建立了在各分布式天线节点独立发射功率约束下最大化多用户端到端和速率的最优化系统模型,进而提出一种双层迭代算法,解决原问题的非凸性求解难题。仿真结果验证了算法的有效性,表明在多用户分布式天线全双工中继系统中,所提波束成形设计能够有效抑制自干扰和多用户干扰,显著提高系统频谱效率。     

MMSE multiuser downlink multiple antenna transmission for CDMA systems

In this paper, we propose a new downlink transmit antenna processing (TAP) technique for code division multiple access (CDMA) equipped with multiple transmit antennas. In order to find the weight vectors for downlink signals, a minimum mean square error (MMSE) performance criterion is used. Since the multiuser interference is taken into account in the calculation of the weighting vectors for TAP, the proposed method is a multiuser downlink TAP method. It is assumed that the downlink channels are known by the downlink TAP. For given channel conditions, the optimal weight vectors are found with a closed-form expression under both flat and frequency-selective fading channel assumptions.     

Performance Analysis of Maximum-Likelihood Multiuser Detection in Space–Time-Coded CDMA With Imperfect Channel Estimation

In this paper, the performance of maximum-likelihood multiuser detection in space-time-coded code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems with imperfect channel estimation is analyzed. A K-user synchronous CDMA system that employs orthogonal space-time block codes with M transmit antennas and N receive antennas is considered. A least-squares estimate of the channel matrix is obtained by sending a sequence of pilot bits from each user. The channel matrix is perturbed by an error matrix that depends on the thermal noise and the correlation between the signature waveforms of different users. Because of the linearity of the channel estimation technique, the characteristic function of the decision variable is used to obtain an exact expression for the pairwise error probability, and by using it, an upper bound on the bit error rate (BER) is obtained. The analytical BER bounds are compared with the BER obtained through simulations. The BER bounds are shown to be increasingly tight for large SNR values. It is shown that the degradation in BER performance due to imperfect channel estimation can be compensated by using a larger number of transmit/receive antennas     

Multiuser soft interference canceler via iterative decoding for DSLapplications

This paper presents a method to mitigate interference on a transmission system by another system with an overlapping frequency band. The systems are uncoordinated so that they cannot be made to transmit in orthogonal coding space. The transmission environment is an interference channel rather than the multiaccess channel often considered in other multiuser detection problems, for instance at the base station of a code division multiple access wireless system. Using the fact that the inputs are all from discrete constellations, it is possible to use a multiuser maximum-likelihood (ML) detector to decode the signals from the system of interest with low probability of error. However, the ML detector often requires impractical computation. A soft linear canceler is instead used to reduce the interference with a small loss of bandwidth in the system of interest. The method has a much lower complexity than a full-blown ML detector, and the soft canceler performance is close to an ML detector. The method is demonstrated on a very-high-speed digital subscriber lines system with a home local area network interference. The system of interest is using a multicarrier modulation transmission scheme such as discrete multitone, while the interfering system transmits using quadrature amplitude modulation     

一种基于导频设计的MIMO-OFDM载波频偏估计方法

在多输入多输出-正交频分复用(MIMO-OFDM)系统中载频同步是个关键问题.考虑在该类系统中,存在着多个不同的载波频偏这个具有普遍适应性的模型,为了估计多个不同的频偏,提出了一种导频设计方案－子波段方法,将多个频偏的估计问题转换为一组单个频偏估计问题,从而降低了复杂度,同时可以有效地抑制载波间干扰和天线间干扰,提高载波频偏估计性能.     

Exploiting Multiuser MIMO in the IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Systems

By adopting multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna technologies, IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs are evolving into high speed systems. While only one user can transmit at a time in the conventional IEEE 802.11 systems, we investigate the possibility of multiuser transmission by using MIMO antennas, which is now known as multiuser MIMO. The multiuser MIMO technique enables multiple users to receive packets over the downlink simultaneously, but it should be carefully used in the IEEE 802.11 systems for interoperation with non-MIMO legacy terminals. Through analysis and simulation evaluation, we demonstrate that multiuser transmission with a scheduling algorithm and single-user transmission with enhanced spatial multiplexing achieve enhanced performance by exploiting multiuser diversity in the space and time domains. Especially, when the number of stations is large, multiuser transmission shows better performance than enhanced single-user transmission.     

Iterative MMSE receivers for space-time trellis-coded CDMA systems in multipath fading channels

We explore code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems with multiple transmit and receive antennas combined with space-time trellis codes over a frequency-selective channel. The conventional noniterative multiuser minimum mean square error (NIMU-mmse) detector is generalized to accommodate multiple antennas and multiple paths and then extended to include the turbo principle in an iterative fashion, allowing interference regeneration and cancellation at the receiver. Iterative multiuser mmse (IMU-mmse) receivers employing chip- and symbol-level detectors are derived and their equivalence is demonstrated. Computer simulations show that the proposed iterative mmse equalizers completely remove the interference of the other users in a multiantenna environment; they provide a significant improvement over the NIMU-mmse detector and they effectively achieve the single-user performance, even in a fully loaded system. Two suboptimal iterative mmse detectors, which allow a computational complexity reduction of up to three orders of magnitude compared to the IMU-mmse and still outperform the NIMU-mmse detector, are introduced. The proposed iterative mmse equalizers are analyzed and supported by extensive computer simulations.     

A Bayesian Multiuser Detection Algorithm for MIMO-ODFM Systems Affected by Multipath Fading, Carrier Frequency Offset, and Phase Noise

We derive a novel Bayesian algorithm for multiuser detection in the uplink of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system employing stacked space-time block codes, such as the stacked Alamouti code with two transmit antennas, and a stacked quasi-orthogonal code with four transmit antennas. The proposed technique accomplishes joint estimation of the carrier frequency offset, phase noise, channel impulse response and data of each active user. Its derivation relies on the specific structure of the transmitted signal and on efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. Simulation results evidence the robustness of the proposed algorithm in both uncoded and coded systems.     

BER and Capacity Improvement for Multiuser MIMO System by MRT Precoding Technique

In recent years several of endeavors have been conducted in various papers to improve capacity and bit error rate performance of multiuser MIMO system. Every effort tried to increase gain of the individual stream between base station and users’ antennas while reducing the interference among multiple users and interference between streams of single user itself. All these papers adopted precoding techniques for beam forming of individual stream. Various papers have compared precoding techniques such as DPC, BD-ZF, BD-MMSE, BD-QR-MRL, and BD-QR-LRL. Block diagonalization technique is capable to reduce multiuser interference, but not able to combat interference between antennas of single user itself. BD combines with other techniques to overcome this problem. This paper also proposes a precoding technique called modified maximum ratio transmission, which is able to deal with the problem without much complexity. Simulation is done to compare all precoding technique with MRT. The paper tests the precoding techniques on the parameters of BER and capacity, to achieve optimum receiver performance. BER curve and capacity curve are plotted to conclude the paper.

     

Soft Decision Error Assisted Layered Multiuser Detectors for MIMO 2D Spread MC DS-CDMAs

In this paper, we present two layered multiuser detectors (MUDs) for MIMO frequency-time-domain (FT-domain) multi-carrier (MC) direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) systems with an antenna array at the base station. We assume that multiple users are active and individually utilize multiple transmit antennas in the MC DS-CDMA system. The users are organized into groups, and each user is assigned a unique Time-domain (T-domain) signature code. Moreover, users in the same group share a unique F-domain signature code. As a result, they can exploit the T-domain and F-domain signature codes to spread their multiple symbols in parallel, and then transmit the FT-domain spread signals from the corresponding multiple antennas over the fading channels to the base station. However, because of the non-ideal channel effect and/or the use of non-orthogonal signature codes, the FT-domain spread MC DS-CDMA system is affected by multiple access interference (MAI) in the same way as CDMA-like systems. To mitigate the effects of MAI and improve the system’s performance, we propose two layered MUDs that exploit the layered soft decision errors. Specifically, in a trade-off between the performance and the computational complexity, only the soft decision errors of one user/one group are used in the proposed layered MUDs. The results of simulations and a complexity analysis demonstrate that the proposed layered MUDs outperform existing approaches and the computational complexity is modest.     

Multiuser two‐way relay processing and power control methods for cognitive radio networks

We consider a cognitive radio system where a secondary network shares the spectrum band with a primary network. Aiming at improving the frequency efficiency of the secondary network, we set a multiantenna relay station in the secondary network to perform two‐way relaying. Three linear processing schemes at the relay station based on zero forcing, zero forcing‐maximum ratio transmission, and minimum mean square error criteria are derived to guarantee the quality of service of primary users and to suppress the intrapair and interpair interference among secondary users (SUs). In addition, the transmit power of SUs is optimized to maximize the sum rate of SUs and to limit the interference brought to PUs. Numerical results show that the proposed multiuser two‐way relay processing schemes and the optimal power control policies can efficiently limit the interference caused by the secondary network to primary users, and the sum rate of SUs can also be greatly improved. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Novel Multiuser Detection Algorithm for CDMA-Based MIMO-OFDM System

1Introduction Recently,MultipleInputMultipleOutput(MIMO)wirelesstechnologieshavecapturedalotofresearchin terest,giventhatthecapacityincreaseturnsouttobe achievable[1-2].OrthogonalFrequencyDivisionMulti plexing(OFDM)techniquehastheremarkablecharac teristic…