Multiple Antennas in Wireless Communications

Multiple Antennas in Wireless Communications Luca Sanguinetti Department of Information Engineering Pisa University lucasanguinetti@ietunipiit April, 2009 Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 1 / 46

Outline Fundamentals of system design in MIMO systems linear receivers non-linear receivers Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 2 / 46

Multiplexing in wireless comunications Basic concept Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 3 / 46

Multiplexing in wireless communications Many ways to obtain multiplexing Time division multiplexing multiple time slots TDM TDMA Frequency division multiplexing multiple frequency bands OFDM OFDMA Code division multiplexing multiple spreading codes CDM CDMA Space division multiplexing multiple antennas SDM SDMA Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 4 / 46

Multiplexing in wireless communications Many ways to obtain multiplexing Time & Frequency & Code division multiplexing require expensive resources (bandwidth or time)! Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 5 / 46

Multiplexing in wireless communications Many ways to obtain multiplexing Spatial division multiplexing no extra bandwidth or time required x= x 1 x 2 M x M H y = y 1 y 2 M y N Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 6 / 46

Multiplexing in wireless communications Spatial multiplexing as a space-time code with rate = M Space-time codes no channel information at the transmitter maximum rate = M T 1 Symbol Information mapper bits Space-time encoder M T X = ML detector The error probability is upper bound by ( K Pr(error) k=1 λ k ) 1 K ρ M KN Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 7 / 46

Multiplexing in wireless communications Spatial multiplexing as a space-time code with rate = M Consider the simplest spatial multiplexing scheme symbols are demultiplexed and transmitted over antennas no temporal coding M 1 Symbol Information mapper bits DEMUX X = ML detector Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 8 / 46

Multiplexing in wireless communications Spatial multiplexing as a space-time code with rate = M Spatial multiplexing with no temporal coding space-time code with rate = M diversity gain N Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 9 / 46

Spatial division multiplexing Horizontal encoding (HE) Information bits DEMUX Coding - Interleaving Coding - Interleaving 1 M 1 Receiver N 1 M Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 10 / 46

Spatial division multiplexing Vertical encoding (VE) Information bits Coding - Interleaving DEMUX 1 1 Receiver 1 M N M Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 11 / 46

Spatial division multiplexing Diversity gain HE: any given symbol is transmitted by a single antenna diversity gain N array gain N coding gain depends on the temporal code simple receiver design! VE: any given symbol is transmitted by all antennas full diversity gain MN! array gain N coding gain depends on the temporal code much more complexity in receiver design Various combinations are possible [Foschini, 1996] Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 12 / 46

Signal model Assume HE, T = 1 and N M Received samples (no temporal coding) or, equivalently, y = Hx + n (1) with h i C N y = h i x i + M k=1,k i h k x k }{{} multi stream interference +n (2) The problem is now to face with multi-stream interference Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 13 / 46

Interference mitigation How to mitigate multi-stream interference? intersymbol interference mitigation multiuser detection [Verdú, 1998] Non-linear receivers maximum-likelihood detector successive interference cancellation Linear receivers zero-forcing equalizer minimum mean square-error equalizer Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 14 / 46

ML detection ML performs the following non-linear optimization ˆx = arg min y H x 2 (3) x which represents a constrained least-squares problem Advantages minimum error rate maximum diversity gain Disadvantages high complexity exhaustive search over Q M alternatives! Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 15 / 46

Probability of error analysis 10 0 10-1 Rayleigh fading 10-2 M = 1, N = 1 Error rate 10-3 10-4 M = 1, N = 2 10-5 ML - M = 2, N = 2 10-6 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 SNR, db Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 16 / 46

Probability of error analysis 10 0 Rayleigh fading 10-1 ML 10-2 Error rate 10-3 10-4 10-5 M = 2, N = 3 M = 3, N = 3 10-6 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 SNR, db Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 17 / 46

ML detection - Sphere decoding ML can be posed as integer least-squares problem sphere decoding [Kannan, 1983] and [Fincke, 1985] Main idea searching only over lattice points Hx lying within an hypersphere of radius R around y Lattice points R Hx Received signal Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 18 / 46

ML detection - sphere decoding How to choose R? Too large, too many points! Too small, no points! How to determine the lattice points lying inside the given sphere? Answer: Fincke and Pohst algorithm [Fincke, 1985] Advantage reduced complexity - polynomial! Disadvantage still too complex for practical applications! Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 19 / 46

Decorellating detector (DD) DD is based on zero-forcing criterion complete elimination of multi-stream interference This is achieved as follows ˆx = ( H H H ) 1 H H y Using (1) yields ˆx = x + ( H H H ) 1 H H n Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 20 / 46

DD Each symbol can be now decoded independently with SNR i = ρ [ M (H H H) 1] i,i (4) where ρ = E{ x i 2 }/σ 2 (σ 2 denotes noise variance) Significant reduction of complexity is achieved compared to MLD Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 21 / 46

DD - Block diagram Decorrelator for stream #1 ˆx 1 y Decorrelator for stream #2 Decorrelator for stream #M ˆx 2 ˆx M Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 22 / 46

DD - Analogy with CDM Consider a CDM system multiple streams are transmitted using orthogonal spreading codes c 1 s 1 Front End s M c M Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 23 / 46

DD - Analogy with CDM Received samples (AWGN channel) M y = c i x i + n = Cx + n i=1 Decision statistic with DD ˆx = x + ( C H C ) 1 C H n Multiple symbols are decoupled exploiting code orthogonality In MIMO systems multiple symbols are separated by means of spatial signatures Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 24 / 46

DD In the presence of ill-conditioned matrix (correlated channel) [ (H H H ) 1 ] i,i SNR i = ρ [ M (H H H) 1] 0 i,i Large degradation of the system performance! The rank of H plays a crucial rule Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 25 / 46

DD How to deal with ill-conditioned channels? Reducing the number of multiple streams Employing antenna selection algorithms Stream #1 Stream #K Antenna selection 1 M Channel information Some channel information at the transmitter is required! Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 26 / 46

DD SNR i are distributed as (Rayleigh fading channel) f(z) = ( ) M M ρ(n M)! e ρ z M N M ρ z u(z) Chi-square random variable with k = 2(N M + 1) Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 27 / 46

DD SNR i are distributed as (Rayleigh fading channel) f(z) = ( ) M M ρ(n M)! e ρ z M N M ρ z u(z) Chi-square random variable with k = 2(N M + 1) Then, we get E {SNR i } = N M + 1 ρ (5) M Pr(error) ρ (N M+1) (6) Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 27 / 46

DD From (5) and (6) it follows that Array gain = N M + 1 Diversity gain = lim ρ log (P e ) log (ρ) = N M + 1 The maximum diversity gain should be N!! The reason is that: M 1 degrees of freedom are used to remove interference N M + 1 are employed to improve system performance Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 28 / 46

DD- Error rate analysis 10 0 Rayleigh fading, DD 10-1 10-2 M = 1, N = 1 Error rate 10-3 10-4 M = 1, N = 2 10-5 M = 2, N = 2 M = 3, N = 3 10-6 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 SNR, db Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 29 / 46

DD- Error rate analysis 10 0 Rayleigh fading, DD 10-1 10-2 M = 1, N = 1 Error rate 10-3 M = 1, N = 2 10-4 10-5 M = 2, N = 3 M = 3, N = 4 10-6 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 SNR, db Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 30 / 46

DD How about capacity? { M } C = E log (1 + SNR i ) i=1 Using (4) yields M ρ C = E log 1 + [ i=1 M (H H H) 1] i,i (7) Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 31 / 46

DD For ρ 1 we get ( ρ ) C = M log + O(1) (8) M with { } O(1) = ME χ 2 2(M N+1) (9) Spatial multiplexing gain is achieved! The term O(1) however introduces some degradations! Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 32 / 46

DD - Capacity Analysis 70 M = N = 8 60 50 bit/s/hz 40 30 20 Capacity DD 10-10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 SNR, db Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 33 / 46

DD & MRC DD eliminates multi-stream interference at the expense of noise enhancement MRC mitigates thermal noise with no interference is the optimal strategy Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 34 / 46

DD & MRC DD eliminates multi-stream interference at the expense of noise enhancement MRC mitigates thermal noise with no interference is the optimal strategy 10 09 M = N = 8 08 07 06 C/R (8,8) 05 04 03 02 Matched filter DD 01 00-30 -20-10 0 10 20 30 Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 34 / 46 SNR, db

Minimum mean square-error detector (MMSED) Based on the minimization of the following cost function J = E { x ˆx 2} Multi-stream interference and thermal noise are jointly mitigated Using the orthogonality principle ˆx = ( H H H + M ρ I M) 1 H H y (10) Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 35 / 46

MMSED Substituting (1) into (10) yields ˆx = x + η where η is the disturbance term with covariance matrix Then C η = σ 2 ( H H H + ρ M I M ) 1 SNR i = 1 [ ( ) ] 1 H H H + M ρ I M i,i 1 Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 36 / 46

MMSED For ρ 0 Then, we get ˆx = ( H H H + M ) 1 ρ I M H H y ρ M HH y E {SNR i } = N M ρ For ρ 0, it coincides with MRC Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 37 / 46

MMSED For ρ ˆx = ( H H H + M ρ I M) 1 H H y ( H H H ) 1 H H y Then, we get E {SNR i } = N M + 1 M ρ For ρ, it coincides with DD Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 38 / 46

MMSED - Capacity Analysis 10 09 M = N = 8 08 07 06 C/R (8,8) 05 04 03 02 Matched filter DD MMSED 01 00-30 -20-10 0 10 20 30 SNR, db Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 39 / 46

Bell Labs Layered Space-Time (BLAST) BLAST is a multistage detector based on successive interference cancellation the single data streams are successively decoded and subtracted MMSED for stream #1 Decode stream #1 ˆx 1 y Subtract stream #1 MMSED for stream #2 Decode stream #2 ˆx 2 Subtract stream #1, 2,, M-2 MMSED for stream #M-1 Decode stream #M-1 ˆx M1 Subtract stream #1, 2,, M-1 MMSED for stream #M Decode stream #M-1 ˆx M Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 40 / 46

BLAST Rewrite (1) into the following form with h i C M y = M 1 i=1 h i x i + n Decision statistic at the jth iteration ˆx (j) i = wz (j) i with w is the ith row of MMSE/DD matrix z (j) i i 1 = y k=1 h kˆx (j) k Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 41 / 46

BLAST + DD Assume ρ 1: SNR i is Chi-square distributed with 2(N M + i) degrees of freedom Then, we get and E {SNR i } = N M + i M ρ log (P e (i)) lim = N M + i ρ log (ρ) Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 42 / 46

DD For ρ 1 we get with ( ρ ) C = M log + O(1) M O(1) = M k=1 { } E χ 2 2(M N+k) Spatial multiplexing gain is achieved! The term O(1) is now better than (9)! Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 43 / 46

BLAST Small improvement with respect to linear receivers the BER is dominated by the first stream decoded the capacity is dominated by the first stream decoded Drawbacks to address no reliability strategy error propagation phenomena Any idea to overcome the above problems? Ordering decode and successively subtract according to some metric This leads to a slight increase of complexity but it reduces the probability of error it increases the capacity Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 44 / 46

BLAST + MMSED 11 10 09 M = N = 8 08 07 C/R (8,8) 06 05 04 03 02 Matched filter DD MMSED BLAST + MMSED 01 00-30 -20-10 0 10 20 30 SNR, db Luca Sanguinetti (IET) MIMO April, 2009 45 / 46

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