Downlink Spectral Efficiency of Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Full-Pilot Zero-Forcing
2018 (English)In: 2018 IEEE GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON SIGNAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING (GLOBALSIP 2018), IEEE , 2018, p. 1003-1007Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ensures ubiquitous communication at high spectral efficiency (SE) thanks to increased macro-diversity as compared cellular communications. However, system scalability and performance are limited by fronthauling traffic and interference. Unlike conventional precoding schemes that only suppress intracell interference, full-pilot zero-forcing (fpZF), introduced in [1], actively suppresses also inter-cell interference, without sharing channel state information (CSI) among the access points (APs). In this study, we derive a new closed-form expression for the downlink (DL) SE of a cell-free Massive MIMO system with multi-antenna APs and fpZF precoding, under imperfect CSI and pilot contamination. The analysis also includes max-min fairness DL power optimization. Numerical results show that fpZF significantly outperforms maximum ratio transmission scheme, without increasing the fronthauling overhead, as long as the system is sufficiently distributed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE , 2018. p. 1003-1007
Series
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, ISSN 2376-4066
Keywords [en]
Cell-free Massive MIMO, full-pilot zero-forcing, downlink spectral efficiency, max-min fairness power control
National Category
Signal Processing Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-295885DOI: 10.1109/GlobalSIP.2018.8646666ISI: 000462968100205ISBN: 978-1-7281-1295-4 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-295885DiVA, id: diva2:1664613
Conference
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), NOV 26-29, 2018, Anaheim, CA
Note
QC 20220620
2022-06-032022-06-032023-04-24Bibliographically approved