Adaptive RF chain management for energy-efficient spatial-multiplexing MIMO transmission

  • Authors:
  • Hang Yu;Lin Zhong;Ashutosh Sabharwal

  • Affiliations:
  • Rice University, Houston, TX, USA;Rice University, Houston, TX, USA;Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE international symposium on Low power electronics and design
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present the theoretical foundation, implementation, and experimental evaluation of a novel power-saving mechanism for wireless transmission from multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transceivers, called RF chain management. RF chain management seeks to minimize the energy per bit for MIMO transmission, via adaptively choosing the optimal RF chain configuration, and satisfies the minimum data rate requirement at the same time. Our simulation shows that up to 45% and averagely 23% energy per bit reduction can be achieved. We have also built a prototype based on the WARP platform, and our experimental results have proved the feasibility of RF chain management in real systems and under realistic channels.