Transmitter layering for multiuser MIMO systems

  • Authors:
  • Christian Schlegel;Dmitri Truhachev;Zachary Bagley

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Theory and Applications in Multiuser/Multiterminal Communications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A novel structure for multiple antenna transmissions utilizing space-time dispersion is proposed, where the original data stream is divided into K substreams which are modulated onto all available transmit antennas using stream-specific transmit signature sequences. In order to achieve this, the transmit antennas are partitioned into M groups of antennas, called partitions. The signals from the K data streams are independently interleaved by partition over the entire transmission frame. The interleaved partitions are then added over all K substreams prior to transmission over the MIMO channel. At the receiver, a low-complexity iterative detector adapted fromrecent CDMA multiuser detection research is used. It is shown that with careful substream power assignments this transmission methodology can efficiently utilize the capacity of rank-deficient channels as it can approach the capacity limits of the multiple antenna channel closely over the entire range of available signal-to-noise ratios and system sizes. This transmission methodology and receiver structure are then applied to multiuser MIMO systems where several multiple antenna terminals communicate concurrently to a joint receiver. It is shown that different received power levels from the different MIMO terminals can be beneficial and that higher spectral efficiencies can be achieved than in the single-terminal case.