Efficient Techniques for In-Band System Information Broadcast in Multi-cell Massive MIMO
2020 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, ISSN 0090-6778, E-ISSN 1558-0857, Vol. 68, no 10, p. 6157-6173Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We consider joint beamforming of data to scheduled terminals (STs) and broadcast of system information (SI) to idle terminals (ITs) on the same time-frequency resource in multi-cell multi-user massive MIMO systems. We consider two different types of SI broadcast, i) synchronous broadcast of common (i.e., same) SI symbols from all cells, and ii) synchronous broadcast of cell-specific SI symbols from each cell. Through analysis we derive expressions for the achievable sum rate to STs in each cell and the rate of SI transmission to an IT for both these types of SI broadcast. We also derive expressions for the sum rate to STs and the rate to an IT for traditional orthogonal access (OA) where a fraction of physical resource is reserved for broadcast of SI. Simulations reveal that, just as in the single-cell scenario, for the multi-cell scenario also, joint beamforming and broadcasting (JBB) is more energy efficient than OA.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE, 2020. Vol. 68, no 10, p. 6157-6173
Keywords [en]
Massive MIMO, Array signal processing, Contamination, Time-frequency analysis, Antenna arrays, Interference, Fading channels, Beamforming, Broadcast, System Information, Multi-cell
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-170115DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2020.3007497ISI: 000579344400016OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-170115DiVA, id: diva2:1471683
Note
Funding agencies: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST) Government of India; Swedish Research Council (VR)Swedish Research Council; ELLIIT; Multi-institute 5G Test Bed Project - Department of Telecommunications (DoT) Gove
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