• 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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권10A호
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• pp.980-986
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• 2008

Spatial multiuser access is investigated for the reverse link of multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In particular, we consider two alternative a aches to spatial multiuser access that adopt the same detection algorithm at the base station: one is a closed-loop approach based on singular value decomposition (SVD) of the channel matrix, whereas the other is an open-loop approach based in space-time block coding (STBC). We develop multiuser detection algorithms for these two spatial multiuser access schemes based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion. Then, we compare the bit error rate (BER) performance of the two schemes and a single-user MIMO scheme. Interestingly, it is found that the STBC approach can provide much better BER performance than the SVD approach as well as than a single-user MIMO scheme.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권12A호
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• pp.1238-1243
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 zero-forcing (ZF) 기반 다중 사용자 MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) 시스템에서, 송신-처리-행렬을 구하기 위한 간단한 순차적 (recursive) nulling 행렬 계산 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안한 방식은 채널 행렬의 부분 행렬을 써서 구한 nulling 행렬을 이용하여 전체 행렬의 nulling 행렬과 송신-처리-행렬을 구하는 방식으로써, 전체 채널 행렬을 이용하여 송신-처리-행렬을 구하는 기존 방식에 비해 계산량을 줄일 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권6A호
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• pp.494-499
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 하향링크 다중 사용자 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) 채널 환경에서 시스템 용량을 최대화시키기 위한 효과적인 사용자 선택 기법에 대해서 논의한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 방법은 사용자 채널 파워와 채널 간의 각도를 이용하여 최적의 사용자 집단을 선택하는 새로운 방법이다. 이 방법은 SUS 방법에 비해 허용 상관도 값을 별도로 생각하지 않아도 되기 때문에 간단한 방법이며, 시스템 성능을 최대화시키는 사용자들을 찾는 방법이기 때문에 향상된 성능을 보인다.

• 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.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권3A호
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• pp.260-268
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• 2010

Channel inversion is one of the simplest techniques for multiuser downlink systems with single-antenna users. In this paper, we extend the regularized channel inversion technique developed for the single-antenna user case to multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels with multiple-antenna users. We first employ the multiuser preprocessing to project the multiuser signals near the null space of the unintended users based on the MMSE criterion, and then the single-user preprocessing is applied to the decomposed MIMO interference channels. In order to reduce the complexity, we focus on non-iterative solutions for the multiuser transmit beamforming and use a linear receiver based on an MMSE criterion. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms existing joint iterative algorithms in most multiuser configurations.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.637-647
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• 2019

Separating highly correlated users can reduce the loss caused by spatial correlation (SC) in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. However, few accurate analyses of the loss caused by SC have been conducted. In this study, we define signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) loss to characterize it in multiuser multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) systems, and use coefficient of correlation (CoC) to describe the SC between users. A formula is deduced to show the accurate relation between SINR loss and CoC. Based on this relation, we propose a user selection method that utilizes CoC to minimize the average SINR loss of users in massive MU-MISO systems. Simulation results verify the correctness of the relation and show that the proposed user selection method is very effective at reducing the loss caused by SC in massive MU-MISO systems.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.26-35
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• 2020

Herein, we consider uplink multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output systems when multiple users transmit information symbols to a base station (BS) by applying simple space-time block coding (STBC). At the BS receiver, two detection filters for each user are used to detect the STBC information symbols. One of these filters is for odd-indexed symbols and the other for even-indexed symbols. Using constrained output variance metric minimization, we first derive a special relation between the closed-form optimal solutions for the two detection filters. Then, using the derived special relation, we propose a new blind adaptive algorithm for implementing the minimum output variance-based optimal filters. In the proposed adaptive algorithm, filter weight vectors are updated only in the region satisfying the special relation. Through a theoretical analysis of the convergence speed and a computer simulation, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme exhibits faster convergence speed and lower steady-state bit error rate than the conventional scheme.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.362-369
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• 2013

The optimal number of users achieving the maximum sum throughput is analyzed in zero-forcing (ZF) based multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a large number of base station (BS) antennas. By utilizing deterministic ergodic sum rates for the ZF-beam forming (ZF-BF) and ZF-receiver (ZF-R) with a large number of BS antennas [1], [2], we can obtain the ergodic sum throughputs for the ZF-BF and ZF-R for the uplink and downlink frame structures, respectively. Then, we can also formulate and solve the optimization problems maximizing the ergodic sum throughputs with respect to the number of users. This paper shows that the approximate downlink sum throughput for the ZF-BF is a concave function and the approximate uplink sum throughput for the ZF-R is also a concave function in a feasible range with respect to the number of users. The simulation results verify the analyses and show that the derived numbers of users provide the maximum sum throughputs for the ZF-BF as well as ZF-R in multiuser MIMO systems with a large number of BS antennas.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.1573-1595
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• 2011

In this paper, the outage performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems exploiting joint spatial and multiuser diversities is investigated for Rayleigh fading channels with outdated feedback. First, we derive closed-form exact outage probabilities for the joint diversity schemes that combine user scheduling with different spatial diversity techniques, including: 1) transmit maximum-ratio combining (TMRC); 2) transmit antenna selection (TAS); and 3) orthogonal space-time block coding (OSTBC). Then the asymptotic outage probabilities are analyzed to gain more insights into the effect of feedback delay. It is observed that with outdated feedback, the asymptotic diversity order of the multiuser OSTBC (M-OSTBC) scheme is equal to the number of transmit antennas at the base station, while that of the multiuser TMRC (M-TMRC) and the multiuser TAS (M-TAS) schemes reduce to one. Further by comparing the asymptotic outage probabilities, it is found that the M-TMRC scheme outperforms the M-TAS scheme, and the M-OSTBC scheme can perform best in the outage regime of practical interest when the feedback delay is large. Theoretical analysis is verified by simulation results.