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Rate Analysis of Two-Receiver MISO Broadcast Channel With Finite Rate Feedback: A Rate-Splitting Approach


Abstract:

To enhance the multiplexing gain of two-receiver Multiple-Input-Single-Output Broadcast Channel with imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT), a clas...Show More

Abstract:

To enhance the multiplexing gain of two-receiver Multiple-Input-Single-Output Broadcast Channel with imperfect channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT), a class of Rate-Splitting (RS) approaches has been proposed recently, which divides one receiver's message into a common and a private part, and superposes the common message on top of Zero-Forcing precoded private messages. In this paper, with quantized CSIT, we study the ergodic sum rate of two schemes, namely RS-S and RS-ST, where the common message(s) are transmitted via a space and space-time design, respectively. Firstly, we upper-bound the sum rate loss incurred by each scheme relative to Zero-Forcing Beamforming (ZFBF) with perfect CSIT. Secondly, we show that, to maintain a constant sum rate loss, RS-S scheme enables a feedback overhead reduction over ZFBF with quantized CSIT. Such reduction scales logarithmically with the constant rate loss at high Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR). We also find that, compared to RS-S scheme, RS-ST scheme offers a further feedback overhead reduction that scales with the discrepancy between the feedback overhead employed by the two receivers when there are alternating receiver-specific feedback qualities. Finally, simulation results show that both schemes offer a significant SNR gain over conventional single-user/multiuser mode switching when the feedback overhead is fixed.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications ( Volume: 63, Issue: 9, September 2015)
Page(s): 3232 - 3246
Date of Publication: 08 July 2015

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I. Introduction

In downlink Broadcast Channel (BC), the utilization of multiple antennas at the transmitter offers a higher multiplexing gain, i.e., Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF), and throughput enhancement compared to the single antenna case. However, to realize such benefits, interference mitigation methods are required at the transmitter and their performance strongly relies on highly accurate channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT), which is difficult to attain in practice.

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