Design and experimental validation of MIMO multiuser detection for downlink Packet Data

In single-user MIMO communication, the first-order throughput scaling is determined by the smallest of the number of transmit and receive antennas. This typically renders terminals the constraining bottleneck. In a multiuser downlink, this bottleneck can be bypassed by having the base station commun...

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Autores: Samardzija, Dragan, Lozano Solsona, Angel, Papadias, Constantinos B.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/27613
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/27613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.1769
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:MIMO
HSDPA
UMTS
Experimental validation
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Sumario:In single-user MIMO communication, the first-order throughput scaling is determined by the smallest of the number of transmit and receive antennas. This typically renders terminals the constraining bottleneck. In a multiuser downlink, this bottleneck can be bypassed by having the base station communicate with multiple terminals simultaneously, in which case the receive antennas at those terminals are effectively pooled in terms of the capacity scaling. This, however, requires that the base have instantaneous channel information. Without such information, the structure and statistics of the channel can be exploited to form multiple simultaneous beams towards the various users, but these beams are in general mutually interfering. This paper proposes the use of multiuser detection to discriminate the signals conveyed over interfering beams. This approach is formulated and experimentally evaluated on an HSDPA MIMO testbed that involves a commercial base station, multiantenna terminals, and custom ASICs.