J4 ›› 2011, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (1): 66-70.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2011.01.011

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Robust successive MMSE precoding for the MU-MIMO downlink transmission system

LI Chuan1;LIU Wei2;LI Xiaoya2;ZHOU Lihua1   

  1. (1. Research Inst. of Multimedia Technology, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China;
    2. State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Research Inst. of Information Science, Broadband Wireless Communications Lab., Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2010-07-16 Online:2011-02-20 Published:2011-04-08
  • Contact: LI Chuan E-mail:chuanliuk@yahoo.com

Abstract:

A robust successive MMSE (SMMSE) precoding scheme is proposed in the context of the multiple user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) downlink (DL) transmission system under the condition of imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter side. The proposed algorithm enables us to use multiple antennas at the receiving terminal so that it is possible to jointly process the received signal at the receiving terminial, with the eigen-beamforming technique belonging to the joint processing method. Simulation results show that the robust SMMSE algorithm aided eigen-beamforing technique can effectively improve the system performance compared to the one without considering the impact of the channel estimation error, and even completely remove the error floor.

Key words: MIMO, multiuser, successive MMSE, precoding, robust