Unraveling the Rank-One Solution Mystery of Robust MISO Downlink Transmit Optimization: A Verifiable Sufficient Condition via a New Duality Result

DOI10.1109/TSP.2017.2649488zbMATH Open1414.94410arXiv1602.01569MaRDI QIDQ4620716FDOQ4620716

Authors: Wing-Kin Ma, Jiaxian Pan, Anthony Man-Cho So, Tsung-Hui Chang 

Publication date: 8 February 2019

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

Abstract: This paper concentrates on a robust transmit optimization problem for the multiuser multi-input single-output (MISO) downlink scenario and under inaccurate channel state information (CSI). This robust problem deals with a general-rank transmit covariance design, and it follows a safe rate-constrained formulation under spherically bounded CSI uncertainties. Curiously, simulation results in previous works suggested that the robust problem admits rank-one optimal transmit covariances in most cases. Such a numerical finding is appealing because transmission with rank-one covariances can be easily realized by single-stream transmit beamforming. This gives rise to a fundamentally important question, namely, whether we can theoretically identify conditions under which the robust problem admits a rank-one solution. In this paper, we identify one such condition. Simply speaking, we show that the robust problem is guaranteed to admit a rank-one solution if the CSI uncertainties are not too large and the multiuser channel is not too poorly conditioned. To establish the aforementioned condition, we develop a novel duality framework, through which an intimate relationship between the robust problem and a related maximin problem is revealed. Our condition involves only a simple expression with respect to the multiuser channel and other system parameters. In particular, unlike other sufficient rank-one conditions that have appeared in the literature, ours is verifiable. The application of our analysis framework to several other CSI uncertainty models is also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01569

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Robust Sum MSE Optimization for Downlink Multiuser MIMO Systems With Arbitrary Power Constraint: Generalized Duality Approach

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