1. Efficient Transmit Covariance Design in MIMO Interference Channel.
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Vaezy, Hossein, Naghsh, Mohammad Mahdi, Omidi, Mohammad Javad, and Alian, Ehsan Haj Mirza
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MIMO systems , *ITERATIVE methods (Mathematics) , *TRANSMITTERS (Communication) , *DISTRIBUTED computing , *USER interfaces , *CHANNEL estimation - Abstract
This paper is concerned with the sum-rate maximization problem in multiple-input multiple-output interference channels. We design the transmit covariance matrix, associated with each transmitter to maximize the sum-rate of the network when the number of data symbols is unknown. The design problem is nonconvex and then hard to be solved. We devise a semidistributed design methodology according to majorization–minimization technique to deal with the optimization problem. This leads us to a convex quadratically constrained quadratic program at each iteration with a semiclosed form solution. The proposed method is computationally efficient and converges to stationary points of the problem. The fact that the method is based on a distributed processing framework along with relatively low computational burden ( $\mathcal{O}(\max \lbrace M,N\rbrace ^{2.3})$ per iteration with $M$ and $N$ being the number of antennas at the transmitter and receiver, respectively) for the user terminals can make it a potential candidate for practical implementations. Finally, we extend the proposed method for the case with channel estimation errors. Simulation results verify the efficiency of the proposed method, and in a typical scenario we have around 60 times lower run-time when compared to the counterparts of the method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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