Presentation 2021-06-23
A Comparison of Variational Bayesian and Expectation Propagation Methods for Massive MIMO Signal Detection
Hiroki Asumi, Junichiro Hagiwara, Toshihiko Nishimura, Takeo Ohgane, Yasutaka Ogawa, Takanori Sato,
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Abstract(in English) Signal detection in massive MIMO has difficulty in reducing computational complexity as the number of antennas increases.It is well known that naive application of maximum likelihood decoding causes unrealistic complexity.This report studies the applicability of the stochastic variational Bayesian method as an approach to reduce computational complexity.While the variational Bayesian method approximates the target distribution by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence, the existing expectation propagation method can also be interpreted similarly.We have compared the detection performance and computational complexity between both methods.As a result, we have found that the variational Bayesian method achieves better detection performance in many cases than the expectation propagation method with a polynomial order complexity, while it is computationally more expensive than the expectation propagation method.
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Keyword(in English) Massive MIMO / Signal Detection / Expectation Propagation Method / Variational Bayesian Method
Paper # RCS2021-30
Date of Issue 2021-06-16 (RCS)

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Committee RCS
Conference Date 2021/6/23(3days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) First Presentation in IEICE Technical Committee, Resource Control, Scheduling, Wireless Communications, etc.
Chair Eiji Okamoto(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Fumihide Kojima(NICT) / Toshihiko Nishimura(Hokkaido Univ.) / Tomoya Tandai(Toshiba)
Secretary Fumihide Kojima(Panasonic) / Toshihiko Nishimura(NEC) / Tomoya Tandai
Assistant Koichi Adachi(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Osamu Nakamura(Sharp) / Manabu Sakai(Mitsubishi Electric) / Masashi Iwabuchi(NTT) / Tatsuki Okuyama(NTT DOCOMO)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A Comparison of Variational Bayesian and Expectation Propagation Methods for Massive MIMO Signal Detection
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Massive MIMO
Keyword(2) Signal Detection
Keyword(3) Expectation Propagation Method
Keyword(4) Variational Bayesian Method
1st Author's Name Hiroki Asumi
1st Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University(Hokkaido Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Junichiro Hagiwara
2nd Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University(Hokkaido Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Toshihiko Nishimura
3rd Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University(Hokkaido Univ.)
4th Author's Name Takeo Ohgane
4th Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University(Hokkaido Univ.)
5th Author's Name Yasutaka Ogawa
5th Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University(Hokkaido Univ.)
6th Author's Name Takanori Sato
6th Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University(Hokkaido Univ.)
Date 2021-06-23
Paper # RCS2021-30
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) RCS-72
Page pp.pp.7-12(RCS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-06-16 (RCS)