Abstract—In this paper we study the effect of discrete constellation alphabets on linear precoding for the downlink of multiuser (MU) MIMO. We underline the fundamental difference in the approach of precoding if the alphabets are assumed to be discrete constellations rather than the idealized Gaussian assumption. We derive the optimal linear precoder by maximizing the sum rate taking into accou...

With the integration of Internet and multimedia applications in next generation wireless communications, the demand for wide-band high data rate communication services is growing. In recent years, multiple transmitter and receiver antennas are employed in the wireless communications systems to adapt various demands of high speed wireless links and improved signal to noise ratio . In order to ta...

Wireless communications are important in our highly connected world. The amount of data being transferred in cellular networks is steadily growing, and consequently more capacity is needed. This thesis considers the problem of downlink capacity improvement from the perspective of multicell coordination. By employing multiple antennas at the transmitters and receivers of a multicell network, the...

In multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel (H) communication, when channel status information (CSI) is known to the receiver but not to the transmitter, the precoding technique can achieve a highly reliable communication link, when the receiver informs an optimal precoding matrix index to the transmitter based on current CSI. To select an optimal precoding matrix (F), the maximum capacity...

Abstract— Wireless communication systems suffer from fading and signal attenuation due to the mobility factor associated with it. OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is a multicarrier technique that offers high spectral efficiency. MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) configuration provides enhanced capacity with the same transmit power. OFDM combined with MIMO offers increased d...

In this paper, we focus on the design of low complexity hybrid analog/digital precoding and diversity combining in the millimeter wave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Firstly, by exploiting the sparseness property of the millimeter wave in the angular domain, we propose a spatial lobes division (SLD) to group the total paths of the millimeter wave channel into several spatial lob...

In this paper, an improved precoding strategy for broadcast channels, i.e., the transmission from one central transmitter (e.g., base station) to a number of distributed receivers (e.g., mobile terminals), is presented. The new scheme is a generalization of Tomlinson-Harashima precoding applied to multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) channels and a translation of concepts from lattice-reductio...

The massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system has drawn increasing attention recently as it is expected to boost the system throughput and result in lower costs. Previous studies mainly focus on time division duplexing (TDD) systems, which are more amenable to practical implementations due to channel reciprocity. However, there are many frequency division duplexing (FDD) systems depl...

Compound precoding is a state-of-the-art technique for combining trellis coding and decisionfeedback equalization (DFE) prior to upstream transmission on the telephone-line channel, and is an option in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)-T V.92 standard. In this paper, we provide a detailed overview of this technique. We demonstrate that compound precoding combines in a straightfor...

Conditional mutual information (CMI) analysis and precoding design for generally correlated wireless multi-hop multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channels are presented in this paper. Although some particular scenarios have been examined in existing publications, this paper investigates a generally correlated transmission system having spatially correlated channel, mutually correlated source symbo...