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Spatial Multiplexing for Outdoor MIMO-OFDM Systems with Limited Feedback Constraint.

Stefano Savazzi , Politecnico di Milano, Monica Nicoli , Politecnico di Milano, and Mikael Sternad, UU

IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2006 Istanbul, Turkey, 11-15 June 2006.   © IEEE


Outline:
The use of multiple antennas enables also space-division multiple access (SDMA), which allows intra-cell bandwidth reuse by creating spatially multiplexed channels.

A fundamental challenge to be overcome is how the scheduler should separate and group the users. Recent studies focused on the uplink case and suggested clustering of users based on their mutual spatial correlation, or alternatively based on their main direction of arrival in case of moderate angular spread at the base station.

If channel state information (CSI) is perfectly known to the transmitter then interference-free spatially multiplexed channels could be set up through appropriate precoding matrices or vectors. However, for frequency division duplex (FDD) systems, this assumption leads to an unacceptable feedback rate requirement for users at vehicular velocities.

Abstract:
In this paper we propose a spatial multiplexing technique for the downlink of a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) system.

For outdoor environments with a limited angular spread at the base station, the proposed technique is able to separate the users streams through a joint spatial processing at both the transmitter and the receiver requiring only a limited feedback from each user. Adaptive transmission is adopted on each stream, designed to attain a fixed probability of error.

Numerical simulations show that the proposed technique is able to provide significant throughput gains compared to fixed-beams based approaches proposed in the literature.

Related publications:
Journal paper version IEEE Trans. Wireless Comm., Nov. 2008
Proc. of the IEEE (Dec. 2007) invited paper on adaptive transmission in beyond-3G wireless systems.
Reduced-rank Channel Estimation and Tracking in Time-slotted CDMA Systems,
Reduced-rank channel estimation, method by Erik Lindskog and Claes Tidestav, IEEE VTC'99.

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