Pilot contamination can bring up a grave impairment in the performance of massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)systems.In this paper,an improved time-shifted pilot scheme is proposed to reduce the pilot contami...Pilot contamination can bring up a grave impairment in the performance of massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)systems.In this paper,an improved time-shifted pilot scheme is proposed to reduce the pilot contamination,where orthogonal pilots are employed in the same group to eliminate the residual intragroup interference existing in the original time-shifted pilot scheme.Meanwhile,the rigorous closed-form expressions of both downlink and uplink transmission rates with a finite number of antennas are derived,and it is shown that the intra-group interference can be completely eliminated by the proposed scheme.Simulation results demonstrate that both downlink and uplink transmission rates are significantly improved by employing the proposed scheme.展开更多
The local field potential(LFP) is a signal reflecting the electrical activity of neurons surrounding the electrode tip. Synchronization between LFP signals provides important details about how neural networks are or...The local field potential(LFP) is a signal reflecting the electrical activity of neurons surrounding the electrode tip. Synchronization between LFP signals provides important details about how neural networks are organized. Synchronization between two distant brain regions is hard to detect using linear synchronization algorithms like correlation and coherence. Synchronization likelihood(SL) is a non-linear synchronization-detecting algorithm widely used in studies of neural signals from two distant brain areas. One drawback of non-linear algorithms is the heavy computational burden. In the present study, we proposed a graphic processing unit(GPU)-accelerated implementation of an SL algorithm with optional 2-dimensional time-shifting. We tested the algorithm with both artificial data and raw LFP data. The results showed that this method revealed detailed information from original data with the synchronization values of two temporal axes,delay time and onset time, and thus can be used to reconstruct the temporal structure of a neural network. Our results suggest that this GPU-accelerated method can be extended to other algorithms for processing time-series signals(like EEG and f MRI) using similar recording techniques.展开更多
基金Supported by Beijing Natural Science Foundation(4194087)。
文摘Pilot contamination can bring up a grave impairment in the performance of massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)systems.In this paper,an improved time-shifted pilot scheme is proposed to reduce the pilot contamination,where orthogonal pilots are employed in the same group to eliminate the residual intragroup interference existing in the original time-shifted pilot scheme.Meanwhile,the rigorous closed-form expressions of both downlink and uplink transmission rates with a finite number of antennas are derived,and it is shown that the intra-group interference can be completely eliminated by the proposed scheme.Simulation results demonstrate that both downlink and uplink transmission rates are significantly improved by employing the proposed scheme.
基金supported by Grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81230023,81571067,and 81521063)National Basic Research Development Program(973 Program)of China(2013CB531905)the‘‘111’’Project of China
文摘The local field potential(LFP) is a signal reflecting the electrical activity of neurons surrounding the electrode tip. Synchronization between LFP signals provides important details about how neural networks are organized. Synchronization between two distant brain regions is hard to detect using linear synchronization algorithms like correlation and coherence. Synchronization likelihood(SL) is a non-linear synchronization-detecting algorithm widely used in studies of neural signals from two distant brain areas. One drawback of non-linear algorithms is the heavy computational burden. In the present study, we proposed a graphic processing unit(GPU)-accelerated implementation of an SL algorithm with optional 2-dimensional time-shifting. We tested the algorithm with both artificial data and raw LFP data. The results showed that this method revealed detailed information from original data with the synchronization values of two temporal axes,delay time and onset time, and thus can be used to reconstruct the temporal structure of a neural network. Our results suggest that this GPU-accelerated method can be extended to other algorithms for processing time-series signals(like EEG and f MRI) using similar recording techniques.