A multiuser Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) broadcast channel is considered where both transmitter and receivers are equipped with multiple antennas. The Channel S...A multiuser Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) broadcast channel is considered where both transmitter and receivers are equipped with multiple antennas. The Channel State Information (CSI) is quantized and provided through limited feedback links. In the first part of this work, the Maximum Expected SINR Combining (MESC) strategy for feedback decrease is investigated. Then a combination of MESC with subcarrier assigning is presented to further reduce the feedback load. The basic idea is the subcarriers are partitioned into resource blocks. For each block, only one quantized channel vector is feedback. The simulation results show MESC can obtain the performance gain over the relevant combiner strategies in MIMO-OFDM system. Moreover the effectiveness on the reduction of feedback overhead by the use of partitioning blocks in the studied system is evaluated.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Post-doctoral Research Funding(No.20090451239)
文摘A multiuser Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) broadcast channel is considered where both transmitter and receivers are equipped with multiple antennas. The Channel State Information (CSI) is quantized and provided through limited feedback links. In the first part of this work, the Maximum Expected SINR Combining (MESC) strategy for feedback decrease is investigated. Then a combination of MESC with subcarrier assigning is presented to further reduce the feedback load. The basic idea is the subcarriers are partitioned into resource blocks. For each block, only one quantized channel vector is feedback. The simulation results show MESC can obtain the performance gain over the relevant combiner strategies in MIMO-OFDM system. Moreover the effectiveness on the reduction of feedback overhead by the use of partitioning blocks in the studied system is evaluated.