• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.765-773
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• 2008

Spatial correlation is a result of insufficient antenna spacing among multiple antenna elements, while temporal correlation is caused by Doppler spread. This paper compares the effect of spatial and temporal correlation in order to investigate the performance of multiuser scheduling algorithms in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channels. This comparison includes the effect on the ergodic capacity, on fairness among users, and on the sum-rate capacity of a multiuser scheduling algorithm utilizing statistical channel state information in spatio-temporally correlated MIMO broadcast channels. Numerical results demonstrate that temporal correlation is more meaningful than spatial correlation in view of the multiuser scheduling algorithm in MIMO broadcast channels. Indeed, the multiuser scheduling algorithm can reduce the effect of the Doppler spread if it exploits the information of temporal correlation appropriately. However, the effect of spatial correlation can be minimized if the antenna spacing is sufficient in rich scattering MIMO channels regardless of the multiuser scheduling algorithm used.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.71-75
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• 2011

The sum-rate maximization rule can find an optimal user set that maximizes the sum capacity in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) broadcast channels (BCs), but the search space for finding the optimal user set becomes prohibitively large as the number of users increases. The proposed algorithm selects a user set of the largest effective channel norms based on statistical channel state information (CSI) for reducing the computational complexity, and uses Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) for minimizing the interference between selected users in time-varying MIMO BCs.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.124-129
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• 2009

Although the maximum sum-rate capacity of multiple-input multiple output(MIMO) broadcast channels(BCs) can be achieved by dirty-paper coding(DPC), the results were obtained without fairness considerations in uncorrelated MIMO channels. In this paper, we propose new multiuser scheduling algorithms, which find a best user set for approaching the maximum sum-rate capacity while maintaining fairness among users. We analyze the performance of the proposed algorithms using zero-forcing dirty paper coding(ZF-DPC) in the correlated MIMO BCs for throughput and delay fairness, respectively. Numerical results demonstrate that a large time window can reduce the average throughput difference between users, but it increases head-of-line(HOL) delay jitters in the case of delay fairness.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37권5C호
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• pp.376-383
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• 2012

본 논문은 상호 간 간섭을 주는 두 개의 다중입력 다중출력 간섭 브로드캐스트 채널 (MIMO-IBC: Multiple input multiple output-interfering broadcast channel)에서 공통된 잡음 없는 백본(backbone)망을 통해 두 기지국이 상호간의 사용자 데이터를 공유할 수 있을 때의 공간적 다중화 이득 (SMG: Spatial multiplexing gain)의 일반적인 공식을 유도하였다. 본 MIMO-IBC 모델은 다중안테나를 갖는 두 개의 기지국과 각각 다수의 다중안테나 사용자가 있고, 모두 고정된 채널을 통해 독립적인 메시지를 송신한다고 가정한다. 최종 유도된 결과로부터 다양한 상황의 안테나 분포뿐 만 아니라 기지국 협력 유무에 따른 공간적 다중화 이득의 변화를 정량적으로 관찰할 수 있다. 그리고 사용자들 사이에 완전한 협력이 되는 상황과 본 MIMO-IBC 모델에서의 유도된 SMG 결과를 비교하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2014

Block diagonalization (BD) has been proposed as a simple and effective technique in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) broadcast channels. However, when channel state information (CSI) knowledge is limited at the transmitter, the performance of the BD may be degraded because inter-user interference cannot be completely eliminated. In this paper, we propose an efficient CSI quantization technique for BD precoded systems with limited feedback where users supported by a base station are selected by dynamic scheduling. First, we express the received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) when multiple data streams are transmitted to the user, and derive a lower bound expression of the expected received SINR at each user. Then, based on this measure, each user determines its quantized CSI feedback information which maximizes the derived expected SINR, which comprises both the channel direction and the amplitude information. From simulations, we confirm that the proposed SINR-based channel quantization scheme achieves a significant sum rate gain over the conventional method in practical MU-MIMO systems.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권1C호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2010

이 논문에서는 다중사용자 (multi-user) 다중안테나 (multiple-in multiple-out : MIMO) 시스템을 위한 전송기법을 제안한다. Costa가 증명한 더티페이퍼코딩 (dirty-paper coding: DPC)이론에 따르면 송신기가 수신기의 가우시안 분포를 갖는 간섭 신호를 알고 있는 경우 간섭 신호에 상관 없이 채널 캐패시티를 얻을 수 있음이 알려져 있다. 단독사용자 채널의 경우 간단하며 효율적인 DPC기법들이 알려져 있으나 다중사용자 환경에는 실제 구현하는데 있어 복잡도와 관련해 많은 문제를 가지고 있다. 이 논문에서 우리는 다중사용자 환경에서 송신기에 알려진 갑선신호를 효율적으로 제어할 수 있는 네트워크 채널 행렬 삼각화 (network channel matrix triangulation: NMT)기법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안하는 NMT 알고리즘은 다중사용자 MIMO 채널을 서로 독립된 병렬의 Single-input Single-output (SISO) 채널들로 변환하여 단독사용자 환경을 위해 제안되어 있는 기존 DPC기법들을 다중사용자 환경에서도 사용 가능케 한다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 제안된 알고리즘이 다중사용자 환경의 채널 캐패시티에 거의 접근함을 보일 것이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.635-656
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• 2019

In this paper, we investigate the degrees of freedom (DoF) of a multi-cell multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference broadcast channel (IBC) with non-cooperation distributed base stations (BS), where each BS serves users of its corresponding cell. When all BSs simultaneously transmit their own signals over the same frequency band in the MIMO IBC, the edge users in each cell will suffer the inter-cell interference (ICI) and inter-user interference (IUI) signals. In order to eliminate the ICI and IUI signals, a distributed space time interference alignment (DSTIA) approach is proposed where each BS has only limited access to distributed moderately-delay channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). It is shown that the DSTIA scheme can obtain the appreciate DoF gains. In addition, the DoF upper bound is asymptotically achievable as the number of antenna at each BS increases. It is shown that the DSTIA method can get DoF gains over other interference alignment schemes with delayed CSIT in literature. Moreover, the DSTIA method can attain higher DoFs than the IA schemes with global CSIT for certain antenna configurations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.1156-1173
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a new joint precoder and postcoder design strategy to support multiple streams per user in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose two step precoding strategies using equal channel gain decomposition and block diagonalization at the transmitter. With the proposed precoder, the multiuser MIMO channel can be decomposed into multiple parallel channels with equal channel gain per user. After applying receive postcoder which is generated and sent by the transmitter, we can use ML based decoder per stream to achieve full receive diversity. Achievable sum rate bound and diversity performance of the proposed algorithm are presented with feedback signaling design and quantitative complexity analysis. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm asymptotically approaches to the sum rate capacity of the MIMO broadcast channel while maintaining full diversity order.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.393-398
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• 2010

For multi-cell environments, coordinated random beamforming technique in multiuser MIMO(multiple-input multiple-output) broadcast channel is considered. In order to mitigate severe interference at receivers, the multi-cell environments might require complex transmitter and receiver design because the scheduler decision based on full channel state information (CSI) in one cell must be intertwined with decision made by other cells' CSI. With limited CSI, however, this paper considers a scheme of randomizing transmitters' beamforming but being coordinated with other cell transmitters. The transmitters in each cell share random beamforming patterns and schedule data transmission within coherent scheduling period. The corandomized beams allow the users to be selected with the highest SINRs even in multi-cell environments. We analyze the performance of the proposed scheme. And numerical results show that the scheme achieves better performance than the conventional random beamforming when applying to multi-cell environments.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제36권5C호
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• pp.302-308
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 시변 다중 입출력 (multiple-input multiple-output) 방송(broadcast) 채널에서 피드백 양자화와 지연을 고려한 협력 빔형성 (coordinated beamforming: CBF) 시스템을 제안한다. 다중 데이터 스트림을 전송하는 CBF 시스템에 피드백 양자화 기법을 적용하고, 구현 복잡도와 피드백 오버헤드 측면에서 효율적인 CBF 시스템을 제시한다. 또한, 실제적인 무선통신 환경에서 발생하는 피드백 지연에 의한 오류를 최소화하기 위하여 사용자 단말에 선형 채널 예측기를 적용한다. 선형 예측기로 Wiener 필터를 이용하여 피드백 지연시간 후의 미래 채널을 예측하교 이를 토대로 피드백 정보를 생성함으로써 지연된 피드백 정보를 이용하는 CBF 시스템의 성능을 향상시킨다. 모의실험을 통해 다양한 도플러 (Doppler) 주파수의 MIMO 방송 채널에서 양자화와 Wiener 필터를 적용한 CBF 시스템의 향상된 심볼 오율과 합 전송률 성능을 확인한다.