Low-complexity MIMO precoding for finite-alphabet signals

This paper investigates the design of precoders for single-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, and, in particular, for finite-alphabet signals. Based on an asymptotic expression for the mutual information of channels exhibiting line-of-sight components and rather general antenna cor...

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Autores: Wu, Yongpeng, Wing Kwan Ng, Derrick, Wen, Chao-Kai, Schober, Robert, Lozano Solsona, Angel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/37061
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/37061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2017.2700308
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Finite alphabet inputs
Linear precoding
Multiple-input multiple-output
Replica method
MIMO
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Sumario:This paper investigates the design of precoders for single-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, and, in particular, for finite-alphabet signals. Based on an asymptotic expression for the mutual information of channels exhibiting line-of-sight components and rather general antenna correlations, precoding structures that decompose the general channel into a set of parallel subchannel pairs are proposed. Then, a low-complexity iterative algorithm is devised to maximize the sum mutual information of all pairs. The proposed algorithm significantly reduces the computational load of existing approaches with only minimal loss in performance. The complexity savings increase with the number of transmit antennas and with the cardinality of the signal alphabet, making it possible to support values thereof that were unmanageable with existing solutions. Most importantly, the proposed solution does not require instantaneous channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter, but only statistical CSI.