Multi-Cell Random Beamforming: Achievable Rate and Degrees of Freedom Region

DOI10.1109/TSP.2013.2261990zbMATH Open1393.94377DBLPjournals/tsp/NguyenZH13arXiv1205.5849OpenAlexW2058714794WikidataQ58024535 ScholiaQ58024535MaRDI QIDQ4578619FDOQ4578619

Authors: Hieu D. Nguyen, Rui Zhang, H. T. Hui 

Publication date: 22 August 2018

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Random beamforming (RBF) is a practically favourable transmission scheme for multiuser multi-antenna downlink systems since it requires only partial channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter. Under the conventional single-cell setup, RBF is known to achieve the optimal sum-capacity scaling law as the number of users goes to infinity, thanks to the multiuser diversity enabled transmission scheduling that virtually eliminates the intra-cell interference. In this paper, we extend the study of RBF to a more practical multi-cell downlink system with single-antenna receivers subject to the additional inter-cell interference (ICI). First, we consider the case of finite signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at each receiver. We derive a closed-form expression of the achievable sum-rate with the multi-cell RBF, based upon which we show an asymptotic sum-rate scaling law as the number of users goes to infinity. Next, we consider the high-SNR regime and for tractable analysis assume that the number of users in each cell scales in a certain order with the per-cell SNR. Under this setup, we characterize the achievable degrees of freedom (DoF) for the single-cell case with RBF. Then we extend the analysis to the multi-cell RBF case by characterizing the DoF region. It is shown that the DoF region characterization provides useful guideline on how to design a cooperative multi-cell RBF system to achieve optimal throughput tradeoffs among different cells. Furthermore, our results reveal that the multi-cell RBF scheme achieves the "interference-free DoF" region upper bound for the multi-cell system, provided that the per-cell number of users has a sufficiently large scaling order with the SNR. Our result thus confirms the optimality of multi-cell RBF in this regime even without the complete CSI at the transmitter, as compared to other full-CSI requiring transmission schemes such as interference alignment.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5849

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Communication theory (94A05)

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• Beamforming and interference cancellation for capacity gain in mobile networks
• Degrees of Freedom of Uplink–Downlink Multiantenna Cellular Networks
• Random Beamforming Over Quasi-Static and Fading Channels: A Deterministic Equivalent Approach

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