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Energy Efficient Transmit Antenna Selection Scheme in Multi-User Massive MIMO Networks

Multi-User Massive MIMO 네트워크에서 에너지 효율적인 전송 안테나 선택 기법

  • Jeong, Moo-Woong (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • Ban, Tae-Won (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Gyeongsang National University)
  • Received : 2016.03.30
  • Accepted : 2016.04.18
  • Published : 2016.07.31

Abstract

Recently, there have been many researches which can achieve high data rate in multi-user massive MIMO networks while reducing the complexity in terms of both hardware and algorithm. In addition, many researches have been conduced to reduce the energy consumption in next generation mobile communication networks. In this paper, we thus investigated new transmit antenna selection scheme to achieve low computational complexity and enhance energy efficiency in multi-user massive MIMO networks. First, we introduced the optimal scheme based on Brute-Force searching to maximize the energy efficiency and then proposed new antenna selection scheme to dramatically reduce the computational complexity compared to the optimal scheme. As the number of transmit antennas increases, the complexity of the optimal scheme exponentially increases while the complexity of the proposed scheme linearly increases. Nevertheless, the energy efficiency performance gap between proposed and optimal schemes is not huge.

최근 들어서, Multi-User Massive MIMO 네트워크에서 하드웨어와 알고리즘 측면에서 복잡도를 낮추면서 높은 전송률을 얻을 수 있는 다양한 전송 안테나 선택 기법에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 또한, 차세대 이동통신 네트워크에서 에너지 소모량을 줄이기 위한 다양한 기술들에 대한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 그래서, 본 논문에서는 Multi-User Massive MIMO 네트워크에서 낮은 계산 복잡도를 달성하면서 에너지 효율성을 높일 수 있는 전송 안테나 선택 기법을 연구하였다. 먼저, Brute-Force 탐색 기반의 최적 방식을 소개하고 최적 방식 대비 계산 복잡도를 획기적으로 줄일 수 있는 새로운 안테나 선택 기법을 제안하였다. 안테나 수가 증가할수록 최적 방식의 복잡도는 지수적으로 증가하는 반면 제안 방식은 선형적으로 증가한다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 제안 방식과 모든 경우를 고려하는 최적 방식의 에너지 효율 성능 차이는 크지 않다.

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