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Performance Improvement of Downlink Real-Time Traffic Transmission Using MIMO-OFDMA Systems Based on Beamforming

Beamforming 기반 MIMO-OFDMA 시스템을 이용한 하향링크 실시간 트래픽 전송 성능 개선

  • Yang Suck-Chel (School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University) ;
  • Park Dae-Jin (School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University) ;
  • Shin Yo-An (School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University)
  • 양석철 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부) ;
  • 박대진 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부) ;
  • 신요안 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
  • Published : 2006.03.01
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a MIMO-OFDMA (Multi Input Multi Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) system based on beamforming for performance improvement of downlink real-time traffic transmission in harsh channel conditions with low CIR (Carrier-to-Interference Ratio). In the proposed system, we first consider the M-GTA-SBA (Modified-Grouped Transmit Antenna-Simple Bit Allocation) using effective CSI (Channel State Information) calculation procedure based on spatial resource grouping, which is adequate for the combination of MRT (Maximum Ratio Transmission) in the transmitter and MRC (Maximum Ratio Combining) in the receiver. In addition, to reduce feedback information for the beamforming, we also apply QEGT (Quantized Equal Gain Transmission) based on quantization of amplitudes and phases of beam weights. Furthermore, considering multi-user environments, we propose the P-SRA (Proposed-Simple Resource Allocation) algorithm for fair and efficient resource allocation. Simulation results reveal that the proposed MIMO-OFDMA system achieves significant improvement of spectral efficiency in low CRI region as compared to a typical open-loop MIMO-OFDMA system using pseudo-orthogonal space time block code and H-ARQ IR (Hybrid-Automatic Repeat Request Incremental Redundancy).

미래형 이동통신 시스템에서 셀 경계와 같이 반송파댄간섭전력비 (Carrier-to-Interference Ratio; CIR)가 낮은 열악한 채널 환경에서 하향링크 실시간 트래픽의 전송 성능 개선을 위한 Beanforming 기반 MIMO-OFDMA (Multi Input Multi Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) 시스템을 제안한다. 우선 기본적인 MIMO-OFDM 시스템의 성능 향상을 위해 송신단 MRT (Maximum Ratio Transmission) 및 수신단 MRC (Maximum Ratio Combining) 기법의 연동을 고려하고, 이에 적합하도록 공간 자원 그룹화 기반의 CSI (Channel State Information) 계산법을 이용한 M-GTA-SBA (Modified-Grouped Transmit Antenna-Simple Bit Allocation) 기법을 고려한다 또한 Beamforming 적용으로 인한 상향링크에서의 과도한 궤환 정보량의 감소를 위해 Beam Weight 양자화 기반의 QEGT (Quantized Equal Gain Transmission) 기법을 적용하며, 다중 사용자 환경에서의 효율적인 자원 할당을 위해 P-SRA (Proposed Simple Resource Allocation) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 모의실험 결과, 제안된 시스템은 상향링크의 궤환 정보량을 감안하더라도 H-ARQ IR (Hybrid-Automatic Repeat Request Incremental Redundancy)과 Pseudo-Orthogonal Space Time Block Code를 사용하는 전형적인 개방루프형 MIMO-OFDMA 시스템에 비해 낮은 CIR 영역에서 월등히 개선된 주파수 효율 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

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