Correlated fading in broadcast MIMO channels: Curseor blessing?

Bruno Clerckx, Gil Kim, Sungjin Kim

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    Abstract

    The impact of transmit correlation on the performance of limited feedback Multi-User MIMO is investigated. Correlated fading is shown to highly influence the probability of scheduling orthogonal users and the ability to achieve small quantization errors. Correlated fading is indeed beneficial to MU- MIMO performance as it can potentially reduce the quantization error, if an appropriate codebook is used. Grassmanian Line Packing is very much inappropriate for MU-MIMO in correlated fading environments, while DFT-based codebooks and channel statistics-based codebooks are promising candidates. Additionally correlated fading is very beneficial to the scheduler. User correlation is shown to decrease more quickly in transmit correlated channels than in i.i.d. channels as the number of active users increases. However, correlated fading is also shown to be detrimental to the scheduler performance when the number of active users is rather small and cell sectorization is performed.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2008
    Pages3830-3834
    Number of pages5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008
    Event2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2008 - New Orleans, LA, United States
    Duration: 2008 Nov 302008 Dec 4

    Publication series

    NameGLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

    Other

    Other2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2008
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityNew Orleans, LA
    Period08/11/3008/12/4

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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