Downlink linear transmission schemes in a single-cell distributed antenna system with port selection

  • Talha Ahmad*
  • , Saad Al-Ahmadi
  • , Halim Yanikomeroglu
  • , Gary Boudreau
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A cellular distributed antenna system (DAS) allows mobile user terminals (UTs) to be served at higher data rates as compared to conventional cellular systems by reducing the path loss and attaining macrodiversity gains. Moreover, such a cellular DAS can be perceived as a distributed multi-user multiple-input multiple-output system. In this paper, the block diagonalization and zero-forcing dirty-paper coding downlink transmission schemes are extended for a single-cell DAS with multi-antenna distributed antenna ports (DAPs) and multi-antenna UTs, where only a subset of all DAPs in the cell transmit to each UT. The aggregate cell spectral efficiency that is achieved by these schemes per frequency-time resource block is compared for both DAS and collocated antenna system (CAS) architectures, subject to the same total power constraint. The gains of the cellular DAS over the cellular CAS are demonstrated, and the effect of the number of antennas per DAP on the performance of the cellular DAS is investigated.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2011-Spring - Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
ISSN (Print)1550-2252

Keywords

  • Block diagonalization
  • Coordinated transmission
  • Distributed antenna system
  • Multi-user MIMO
  • Zero-forcing dirty-paper coding

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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