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A Study on the Uplink SDMA Systems: User Scheduling, Transmit Power Control, and Receive Beamforming

상향링크 공간 분할 다중 접속 시스템에서 사용자 스케쥴링, 송신 전력 제어, 수신 빔포밍에 관하여

  • Cho, Moon-Je (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • Ban, Tae-Won (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • Jung, Bang Chul (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Gyeongsang National University)
  • Received : 2013.11.17
  • Accepted : 2013.12.08
  • Published : 2014.02.28
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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the user scheduling, transmit beamforming, and receive beamforming of uplink space division multiple access (SDMA) systems where multiple users are allowed to transmit their signal to a base station (BS) using the same frequency band simultaneously. The BS performs a receive beamforming using the predetermined pseudo-random pattern and select users with a specific criterion. Especially, in this paper, we propose the threshold-based transmit power control, in which a user decrease its transmit power according if its generating interference to other users's signal is larger than a predetermined threshold. Assuming that the TDD system is used, the channel state information (CSI) can be obtained at each user from pilot signals from the BS. Simulation results show that the proposed technique significantly outperforms the existing user scheduling algorithms.

본 논문은 상향링크 공간분할접속 시스템에서 사용자 스케쥴링, 전력제어, 수신 빔포밍을 다룬다. 사용자는 단일 안테나를 가지며 기지국은 다중 안테나를 가진다고 가정한다. 기지국에서는 미리 약속된 방식으로 수신 빔포밍을 수행하고 빔포밍 후의 정해진 스케쥴링 방식에 따라 사용자가 선택된다. 본 논문에서는 사용자가 각자 자신이 다른 사용자의 신호에 미칠 간섭을 미리 계산하여 그 값이 특정 임계치보다 클 경우 자신의 송신 전력을 낮추는 전력 제어 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 기술의 상향링크 데이터 전송률은 기존에 제안된 다양한 사용자 스케쥴링 알고리즘들에 비하여 월등히 좋은 성능을 보인다.

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