Problems: Lecture 13 to 18

Bruno Clerckx
Communications and Signal Processing Group
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Imperial College London
email: b.clerckx@imperial.ac.uk
February 2, 2014
Note: Equations of the form (x.yz) refer to the reference book.
1 Lecture 13&14: Multi-User MIMO - Multi-
ple Access Channels (Uplink) and Broadcast
Channels (Downlink)
On a sheet of paper ...
1. What is the capacity region of a Three-User SISO Multiple Access
Channel?
2. In a two-user MIMO MAC, what are the rates pair achievable at each
corner points?
3. Explain why in a two-user SISO BC, the channels have to be ordered
in order to achieve the capacity region with superposition coding with
SIC.
4. Show that the capacity region of a two-user SISO BC is a triangle if
the normalized channel gains are equal, i.e. |h
1
|
2
= |h
2
|
2
= |h|
2
.
5. Show that the sum-rate capacity of a two-user SISO BC is achieved
by allocating the transmit power to the strongest user.
2 Lecture 15&16: Multi-User MIMO - Schedul-
ing and Precoding (Downlink)
On a sheet of paper ...
1. Consider a MU-MIMO transmission with K streams transmitted to
K users. Each receiver is equipped with multiple antennas and a
single stream is intended to each user. The transmitter precodes user
data information using a general precoder P (size n
t
K). Assume
that each receiver is equipped with a MMSE receiver. Write the
expression of the MMSE receiver of user 1.
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2. Discuss the validity of the statement MU-MISO based on ZFBF al-
ways outperforms MU-MISO based on matched beamforming. Give
examples and/or counter-examples.
3. Assume a four antenna transmitter and two single antenna receivers.
The channel between the transmitter and receiver 1 is given by h
1
=
[1, 1, 1, 1] and the channel between the transmitter and receiver 2 is
given by h
2
= [1, 1, 1, 1]. The two receivers are scheduled together
using MU-MISO transmissions. Write a precoder that zero-forces
the multi-user interference. Is the solution unique? Explain. Do the
same for h
2
= [1, 1, 1, 1]. What kind of precoder design is this?
Using Matlab ...
1. Evaluate the sum-rate vs SNR performance of MU-MISO using ZFBF
with uniform power allocation and water-lling based power alloca-
tion in i.i.d. Rayleigh fading channels with 4 transmit antennas and
4 single antenna receivers. Compare with Figure 12.11.
2. Reproduce Figure 12.7.
3 Lecture 17: Multi-Cell MIMO
On a sheet of paper ...
1. Consider multi-cell network where each transmitter is equipped with
4 antennas and a user in the centre cell is equipped with 2 receive
antennas. Assume two streams are transmitted to the user. Write
a system model, the expression of the MMSE receiver for that user
and the expression of the rate achievable by that user. Do the same
for a ZF, ZF-SIC and MMSE-SIC receiver.
2. Explain why in the very strong interference regime of a two-user SISO
interference channel, a per-user multiplexing gain of 1 is achievable.
Which receiver strategy allows to achieve such multiplexing gain?
Is there any condition on the SNR and INR of each link for such
strategy to be valid?
4 Lecture 18: MIMO in LTE/LTE-A
Explain the dierence between a dedicated reference signal and a common
reference signal.
Why does MU-MIMO based on ZFBF or Block Diagonalization require
dedicated reference signals?
We make the following observations from the System Level Evaluations in
Chapter 15:
Figure 15.1 (c): 1) Higher transmission ranks are observed as the
number of transmit/receive antennas increases and the antenna spac-
ing and angle spread increase. 2) Full rank transmission are barely
encountered in symmetric antenna set-up (n
r
= n
t
).
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Figure 15.5 (d): The imperfect CSI knowledge at the transmitter
leads to signifcant performance loss of MU-MIMO.
Figure 15.6 (c)&(d): The throughput does not scale with the number
of users K as log log(K) (as it would have been expected from the
multi-user diversity discussed in Section 12.5.1).
Explain why such behavior is observed.
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