Performance Comparison for Single-User and Multi-User Network MIMO Cellular Systems with Power Management

Applied Sciences

Jeng-Shin Sheu¹  Kuan-Ming Huang² 

[1] Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Yunlin, University of Science & Technology, Yunlin 640, Taiwan;Lite-ON Technology Corp., Taipei 100, Taiwan;

关键词: single-user network MIMO;    multi-user network MIMO;    OFDMA;    power management;   

DOI  :  10.3390/app112110298

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Cellular mobile systems aim at aggressive spectrum reuse to achieve high spectral efficiency. Unfortunately, this leads to unacceptable interference near cell borders. To control this, network multi-input multiple-output (MIMO) can be adopted to improve coverage and cell-edge throughput through multi-cell cooperation. With network MIMO, multiple geographically separated base stations (BSs) cooperatively serve their cell-edge users (CEUs) using their antennas, acting together as a network of distributed antenna array. It can be single-user (SU) or multi-user (MU) network MIMO by coordinating channel allocation in adjacent cells. In this paper, we make a capacity comparison of SU- and MU-network MIMO. In network MIMO, a collaborative BS simultaneously serves its own cell-center users (CCUs) and CEUs, and the CEUs of other partner BSs under a power constraint. As a result, power management among three types of users (intra-cell CCUs/CEUs, inter-cell CEUs) becomes necessary. Accordingly, we propose power management methods to help raise the signal strength of inter-cell CEUs and in the meantime gratify the performance of intra-cell users. Simulation results show that MU-network MIMO with superposition coding offers much better CEU capacity than SU-network MIMO. As for the CCU capacity, MU-network MIMO is generally better than SU-network MIMO.

【 授权许可】

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