Performance of downlink massive MIMO in ricean fading channels with ZF precoder
Paper in proceeding, 2015

We investigate the achievable sum rate and energy efficiency of zero-forcing precoded downlink massive multipleinput multiple-output systems in Ricean fading channels. A simple and accurate approximation of the average sum rate is presented, which is valid for a system with arbitrary rank channel means. Based on this expression, the optimal power allocation strategy maximizing the average sum rate is derived. Moreover, considering a general power consumption model, the energy efficiency of the system with rank-1 channel means is characterized. Specifically, the impact of key system parameters, such as the number of users N, the number of BS antennas M, Ricean factor K and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) ρ are studied, and closed-form expressions for the optimal ρ and M maximizing the energy efficiency are derived. Our findings show that the optimal power allocation scheme follows the water filling principle, and it can substantially enhance the average sum rate in the presence of strong line-of-sight effect in the low SNR regime. In addition, we demonstrate that the Ricean factor K has significant impact on the optimal values of M, N and ρ.

Author

C. Kong

Zhejiang University

C. J. Zhong

Southeast University

Zhejiang University

Michail Matthaiou

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering

Z. Zhang

Zhejiang University

IEEE International Conference on Communications

15503607 (ISSN)

Vol. 2015-September 1776-1782
978-1-4673-6432-4 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Communication Systems

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2015.7248582

ISBN

978-1-4673-6432-4

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