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- Ahsin, Tafzeel ur Rehman, 1979-
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Link Reliability in Cooperative Relaying Using Network Coding
- 2010
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Demand for high data rates is increasing rapidly for future wireless systems.This trend is due to the increase in the number of mobile subscribers that need bandwidth hungry multimedia applications anywhere, anytime. Fourth generation cellular systems like IMT-advanced are being developed to meet these requirements. The unreliable nature of the wireless medium is one of the main hinderance in providing high data rates. Cooperative communication in cellular networks is emerging as a new paradigm to deal with the channel impairments. User cooperation via fixed relays in cellular systems form multiple access relay channels (MARCs) and provide an effective and cost efficient solution to achieve spatial diversity gains. Network resources can be utilized efficiently by using network coding at cooperating nodes. A lot of research work has focused on highlighting the gains achieved by using network coding in MARCs. However, there are certain areas that are not fully explored yet. For instance, the kind of the detection scheme used at the base station receiver and its impact on the link performance has not been addressed. In most cases, the outage probability has been used as a performance measure of MARCs. However, it is well known that the outage probability gives information about the signal availability, but it does not give the complete picture about the reliability of the link and the achieved quality of service. This thesis work looks at the link performance, in terms of symbol error probability, of multiple access relay channels that employ network coding at the relay node. Different types of detection schemes are considered and their performance is compared under different link conditions. Analytical expressions for the average symbol error probability of the cooperating users are derived. Focusing on the uplink of cellular systems, certain rules are devised on how to group users at relay node to ensure mutual benefit for the cooperating users. As a way of improving the link performance of multiple access relay channels and their robustness, the thesis considers constellation selection for the different branches. This method takes advantage of the redundancy between the transmitted symbols created by network coding and the augmented signal space obtained at the base station receiver. The obtained results show that, with a proper selection of the constellation sets, the link performance of MARCs can be improved. The thesis further looks at the interaction between the channel coding schemes of the cooperating users and network coding. It is shown that joint channel-network coding in MARCs can be seen as a product code. This new representation provides considerable flexibility in selecting efficient decoding algorithms at the base station receiver and gives the possibility to use more powerful network coding schemes for MARCs.
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- Alegria, Juan Vidal, et al.
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Decentralized equalizer construction for large intelligent surfaces
- 2019
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Ingår i: 2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2019 Fall - Proceedings. - 1550-2252. - 9781728112206 ; 2019-September
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we present fully decentralized methods for calculating an approximate zero- forzing (ZF) equalizer in a large intelligent surface (LIS). A LIS is intended for wireless communication and facilitates unprecedented MU- MIMO performance, far superior to that of Massive MIMO. Antenna modules in the grid connect to their neighbors to exchange messages of information needed for interference cancellation in a fully- decentralized fashion, making the system scalable. By a careful design of how the messages are routed, we show that the proposed method is able to cancel inter-user interference sufficiently well without any centralized coordination, opening the door for the realization of this type of structures.
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- Alegría, Juan Vidal, et al.
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Modular binary tree architecture for distributed large intelligent surface
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). - 1520-6149. - 9781728176055 - 9781728176062 ; 2021-June, s. 4865-4869
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Large intelligent surface (LIS) is a technology that extends massive MIMO by considering an even greater number of antennas distributed throughout vast areas. In order to be able to implement this technology, it is crucial to consider decentralized architectures so as to make the whole system scalable. We consider a LIS divided into several LIS panels of smaller size, which can be located far away from each other. We present a modular architecture that allows combining different LIS panels using a binary tree. This architecture is also valid in a cell-free massive MIMO scenario. We make use of a newly defined matrix decomposition, the WAX decomposition, to define the modules that are used within our architecture. We also study the lossless dimensionality reduction in the data to be processed, which can be achieved using our proposed architecture.
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- Alegria, Juan Vidal, et al.
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Trade-Offs in Decentralized Multi-Antenna Architectures: The WAX Decomposition
- 2021
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. - 1053-587X. ; 69, s. 3627-3641
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Current research on multi-antenna architectures is trending towards increasing the amount of antennas in the base stations (BSs) so as to increase the spectral efficiency. As a result, the interconnection bandwidth and computational complexity required to process the data using centralized architectures is becoming prohibitively high. Decentralized architectures can reduce these requirements by pre-processing the data before it arrives at a central processing unit (CPU). However, performing decentralized processing introduces also cost in complexity/interconnection bandwidth at the antenna end which is in general being ignored. This paper aims at studying the interplay between level of decentralization and the associated complexity/interconnection bandwidth requirement at the antenna end. To do so, we propose a general framework for centralized/decentralized architectures that can explore said interplay by adjusting some system parameters, namely the number of connections to the CPU (level of decentralization), and the number of multiplications/outputs per antenna (complexity/interconnection bandwidth). We define a novel matrix decomposition, the WAX decomposition, that allows information-lossless processing within our proposed framework, and we use it to obtain the operational limits of the interplay under study. We also look into some of the limitations of the WAX decomposition.
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- Alegria, Juan Vidal, et al.
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Trade-offs in quasi-decentralized massive MIMO
- 2020
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Ingår i: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2020 - Proceedings. - 9781728174402
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Typical massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures consider a centralized approach, in which all baseband data received by each antenna has to be sent to a central processing unit (CPU) to be processed. Due to the enormous amount of antennas expected in massive MIMO base stations (BSs), the number of connections to the CPU required in centralized massive MIMO is not scalable. In recent literature decentralized approaches have been proposed to reduce the number of connections between the antennas and the CPU. However, the reduction in the connections to the CPU requires more outputs per antenna to be generated. We study the trade-off between number of connections to the CPU and number of outputs per antenna. We propose a generalized architecture that allows exploitation of this trade-off, and we define a novel matrix decomposition that allows information-lossless filtering within our proposed architecture.
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- Almers, Peter, et al.
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Exercises
- 2005
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Ingår i: Wireless Communications. - 9780470848883 - 047084888X - 0470848871 ; , s. 561-593
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Almers, Peter, et al.
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Measured capacity gain using waterfilling in frequency selective MIMO channels
- 2002
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Ingår i: The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2002 , vol 1-5, Proceedings. - 0780375890 ; , s. 1347-1351
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We analyze the channel capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in frequcncy selective channels, with channel knowledge at the transmitter side. An optimum transmission scheme uses Shannon's principle of waterfilling jointly in the frequency and the spatial domain. However, we show in this paper that the largest gain by using waterfilling resides in the spatial domain, and that the capacity gain from the frequency domain is very small for MIMO systems. We quantify the gain for a theoretical Rayleigh fading channel model and for microcellular channels as measured in an enclosed court-yard.
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- Aronsson, Daniel, 1976-
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Channel Estimation and Prediction for MIMO OFDM Systems : Key Design and Performance Aspects of Kalman-based Algorithms
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Wireless broadband systems based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) are being introduced to meet demands for high data transfer rates. In multiple users systems, the available bandwidth has to be shared efficiently by several users. The radio channel quality will fluctuate, or fade, as users move. Fading complicates the resource allocation, but channel prediction may alleviate this problem. A flexible and computationally inexpensive state space representation of fading channels is here used in conjunction with a Kalman filter, operating on special-purpose reference signals, to track and predict fading OFDM channels. The thesis investigates key design and performance aspects of such estimators. Taking a probabilistic approach, we interpret the output of the Kalman filter as a full representation of a state of knowledge about the fading channels, given whatever information is at hand. For systems analysis, this permits conclusions to be drawn about channel estimation and prediction performance based on only vague information about the fading characteristics of the channel rather than on actual channel measurements. This is an alternative to conducting classic simulation studies. Various reference signal designs are studied and good design choices are recommended. Superimposed reference signal schemes are also proposed for and evaluated in cases where multiple signals are received, e.g. in multi-user (MU), multi-input multi-output (MIMO), or coordinated multi-point (CoMP) settings. By using time-varying reference signals, channel estimation and prediction performance is shown to be improved considerably in crowded frequency bands. The variation of prediction performance with prediction range and Doppler spectrum characteristics is investigated. For link adaptation, we derive the appropriate metric on which adaptation decisions should be used. The probability density function for this metric is derived for general MIMO channels. Link adaptation is studied for a single link system when channel prediction and estimation errors are present, both for uncoded systems and systems using large block codes with soft decoders. Various aspects of channel model acquisition are addressed by conducting studies on measured channels. Owing to the use of special matrix structures and fast convergence to time-invariant or periodic solutions, we find the Kalman filter complexity to be reasonable for future implementation. Finally, expressions for the impact of modelling errors are derived and used to study the impact of modelling errors on channel prediction performance in some example cases.
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- Bengtsson, Erik L, et al.
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A Case Study on the Influence of Multiple Users on the Effective Channel in a Massive MIMO System
- 2019
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Ingår i: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. - 2162-2337. ; , s. 1-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate the importance of weak clusters when modeling a wireless massive MIMO channel. We do this by studying the influence of densely spaced terminals and the number of base-station antennas for a zero-forcing precoded massive MIMO system. In particular, we focus on the influence on the correlation and imbalance between the signals at the terminal antennas, the effective channel-gain, the eigenvalue distributions and the number of clusters.The study is based on measured radio-channels from terminal prototypes with integrated antennas connected to a massive MIMO testbed.We further evaluate the advantage of using block-diagonalized zero-forcing compared to conventional zero-forcing in a massive MIMO system. Unexpectedly, terminals with low antenna envelope correlation coefficient may benefit significantly from block-diagonal zero-forcing in a massive MIMO system.The main conclusion is that weaker clusters are important when modeling multi-user scenarios.
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