Reduced feedback SDMA based on subspace packings

  • Authors:
  • Patrick Svedman;Eduard A. Jorswieck;Björn Ottersten

  • Affiliations:
  • Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB and School of Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing Lab, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;Chair of Communication Theory, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany and School of Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing Lab, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;ACCESS Linnaeus Center, Signal Processing Lab, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and University of Luxembourg

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Herein, we treat Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) based on partial channel state information and limited feedback. We propose a novel framework utilizing subspace packings, where beamforming, feedback, and scheduling are integrated. Advantages of the proposed framework are that the fed back supportable rates are based on the post-scheduling SINR and that the feedback implicitly contains information about the spatial compatibility of the users. The feasibility region of packings of different dimensions is indicated by the allocation outage probability which is derived. Grassmannian subspace packings, DFT-based packings, and non-orthogonal Grassmannian packings are formulated and studied as candidates. Numerical simulations show better performance for the proposed scheme compared to conventional channel quantization at the receiver with zero-forcing transmission in i.i.d. Rayleigh fading. Finally, we propose and evaluate a beam-graph method to further reduce the feedback load, that can be used in the context of tracking quantized beamformers.