Presentation 2022-05-26
Incorporation of MU-MIMO Technology into User-centric Cell-Free mMIMO System
Sijie Xia, Chang Ge, Ryo Takahashi, Qiang Chen, Fumiyuki Adachi,
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Abstract(in English) Recently, cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system has been attracting a great attention. CF-mMIMO system is designed to accommodate a relatively small number of users by using a large number of antennas. From the practical perspective of computational complexity and fronthaul capacity, a user-centric antenna clustering approach is taken, i.e., each user is served by an antenna cluster which is a set of antennas with high channel gain. However, as the number of users increases, the interference tends to degrade the transmission performance. To improve the transmission performance under a densely populated user environment, we propose to incorporate the multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) technology into user-centric CF-mMIMO, which is called clusters-centric CF-mMIMO in this paper. In cluster-centric CF-mMIMO, user-clusters are first formed and a set of antennas is associated with each user cluster for performing MU-MIMO communication in parallel. We will show by computer simulation of user capacity that the proposed cluster-centric CF-mMIMO outperforms the user-centric CF-mMIMO under a densely populated user environment.
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Keyword(in English) Cell free massive MIMOuser clusteringsignal processing
Paper # RCS2022-14
Date of Issue 2022-05-19 (RCS)

Conference Information
Committee IN / RCS
Conference Date 2022/5/26(2days)
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Place (in English) Keio University (Hiyoshi Campus)
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Topics (in English) Ad-Hoc/Sensor Networks/MANET, Mobile Networks, M2M/IoT Communications, Wi-Fi, IEEE802.15(ZigBee) and others
Chair Kenji Ishida(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Eiji Okamoto(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Kunio Hato(Internet Multifeed) / Toshihiko Nishimura(Hokkaido Univ.) / Tomoya Tandai(Toshiba) / Fumihide Kojima(NICT)
Secretary Kunio Hato(NTT) / Toshihiko Nishimura(Univ. of Nagasaki) / Tomoya Tandai(Nagaoka Univ. of Tech.) / Fumihide Kojima(KDDI Research)
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 Information Networks / Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems
Language ENG
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Incorporation of MU-MIMO Technology into User-centric Cell-Free mMIMO System
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Cell free massive MIMOuser clusteringsignal processing
1st Author's Name Sijie Xia
1st Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Chang Ge
2nd Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Ryo Takahashi
3rd Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
4th Author's Name Qiang Chen
4th Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
5th Author's Name Fumiyuki Adachi
5th Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
Date 2022-05-26
Paper # RCS2022-14
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) RCS-49
Page pp.pp.7-12(RCS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2022-05-19 (RCS)