Optimal Massive-MIMO-Aided Clustered Base-Station Coordination

A large-scale clustered massive MIMO network is proposed for improving the spectral efficiency of the next-generation wireless infrastructure by maximizing its sum-rate. Our solution combines the advantages of the centralized processing architecture and massive MIMO. Explicitly, the network is divid...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on vehicular technology Jg. 70; H. 3; S. 2699 - 2712
Hauptverfasser: Li, Xueru, Zhang, Xu, Zhou, Yongxing, Hanzo, Lajos
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York IEEE 01.03.2021
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Schlagworte:
Antenna arrays
Antennas
Bandwidth
cell free MIMO
Clusters
Computer architecture
Coordination
Frequency-domain analysis
Large-scale clustered MIMO network
Massive MIMO
optimal power sharing
optimal precoding matrix
Optimization
Precoding
weighted sum rate maximization
ISSN:0018-9545, 1939-9359
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Zusammenfassung:A large-scale clustered massive MIMO network is proposed for improving the spectral efficiency of the next-generation wireless infrastructure by maximizing its sum-rate. Our solution combines the advantages of the centralized processing architecture and massive MIMO. Explicitly, the network is divided into multiple clusters; each cluster is handled by a centralized processing unit, which connects to a certain number of massive MIMO-aided BSs, where only limited information is exchanged among the clusters; each user of a cluster can be served by several nearby BSs in a user-centric way. We analyze the maximum sum-rate of the network with multiple antennas at BSs and UEs, relying on the optimal transmit precoder matrix of each BS configured for each user, and on the optimal frequency-domain power sharing scheme of each cluster. The optimizations are conceived for multiple coordination schemes that were widely studied in literature, namely the coherent-joint-transmission (CJT) scheme, the non-coherent-joint-transmission (NCJT) scheme and the coordinated-beamfoming/scheduling (CBF/CS) scheme. Our simulations show that the optimal CJT achieves 2.2 - 4.5 times higher average sum-rate than its non-cooperative massive MIMO network counterpart, while the optimal NCJT and the optimal CBF/CS achieve at most a factor 1.3 average sum-rate gain. The popular signal-to-leakage-and-noise-ratio (SLNR) scheme is also extended to the multi-antenna UE scenario and achieves a factor 1.1 - 1.2 gain.
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ISSN:0018-9545
1939-9359
DOI:10.1109/TVT.2021.3056875