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Uplink Spectral and Energy Efficiency of Cell-Free Massive MIMO With Optimal Uniform Quantization
Univ Surrey, Inst Commun Syst, Home 5G Innovat Ctr 5GIC, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, England..
Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Elect Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Belfast T7 1NN, Antrim, North Ireland..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3367-2220
Univ York, Dept Elect Engn, York YO10 5NG, N Yorkshire, England..
Univ York, Dept Elect Engn, York YO10 5NG, N Yorkshire, England..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6435-3962
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2021 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, ISSN 0090-6778, E-ISSN 1558-0857, Vol. 69, no 1, p. 223-245Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper investigates the performance of limited-fronthaul cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) taking account the fronthaul quantization and imperfect channel acquisition. Three cases are studied, which we refer to as Estimate&Quantize, Quantize&Estimate, and Decentralized, according to where channel estimation is performed and exploited. Maximum-ratio combining (MRC), zero-forcing (ZF), and minimum mean-square error (MMSE) receivers are considered. The Max algorithm and the Bussgang decomposition are exploited to model optimum uniform quantization. Exploiting the optimal step size of the quantizer, analytical expressions for spectral and energy efficiencies are presented. Finally, an access point (AP) assignment algorithm is proposed to improve the performance of the decentralized scheme. Numerical results investigate the performance gap between limited fronthaul and perfect fronthaul cases, and demonstrate that exploiting relatively few quantization bits, the performance of limited-fronthaul cell-free massive MIMO closely approaches the perfect-fronthaul performance.

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC , 2021. Vol. 69, no 1, p. 223-245
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Bussgang decomposition, cell-free massive MIMO, C-RAN, energy efficiency, quantization, optimal uniform quantization
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Signal Processing Telecommunications
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-296045DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2020.3028305ISI: 000608689300016Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85099765060OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-296045DiVA, id: diva2:1663846
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Available from: 2022-06-02 Created: 2022-06-02 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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