Channel state feedback for the downlinkwith multiple antennas / Realimentação de informação de canal para downlink com multiplas antenas
AUTOR(ES)
Fabio Gabrielli Fernandes
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
Multiuser communication strategies, together with the use of multiple antennas, result in better performance when compared to the point-to-point approach. However, they are highly dependent on knowledge of channel state information at the transmitter, which in general requires that the receivers feed back the estimated channel. The focus of this work is the problem of partial channel state information at the transmitter in the downlink of a wireless system composed of a central transmitter with multiple antennas and several receivers with one or more antennas each. A feedback method is proposed, using zero-forcing beamforming, which aims to achieve high sum rates while using the least amount of feedback bits possible. The channel state information is divided in channel direction and channel quality information. The direction information consists of a quantized version of the direction of the channel vector, which can be seen as quantization in the Grassmann manifold. We propose the use of a lower bound on the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio of each user, which assumes the selection of near-orthogonal users. The lower bound is derived, as well as adjustments intended to add information available at the transmitter side that lead to an increase in the sum rates. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms similar techniques in terms of sum rate in most scenarios
ASSUNTO(S)
sistemas de comunicação sem fio feedback radiodifusão realimentação mimo systems wireless communication systems sistemas mimo broadcast
