VLSI Design of a 3-bit Constant-Modulus Precoder for Massive MU-MIMO
Paper in proceeding, 2018

Fifth-generation (5G) cellular systems will build on massive multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology to attain high spectral efficiency. However, having hundreds of antennas and radio-frequency (RF) chains at the base station (BS) entails prohibitively high hardware costs and power consumption. This paper proposes a novel nonlinear precoding algorithm for the massive MU-MIMO downlink in which each RF chain contains an 8-phase (3-bit) constantmodulus transmitter, enabling the use of low-cost and powerefficient analog hardware. We present a high-throughput VLSI architecture and show implementation results on a Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA. Compared to a recently-reported nonlinear precoder for BS designs that use two 1 -bit digital-to-analog converters per RF chain, our design enables up to 3:75 dB transmit power reduction at no more than a 2.7x increase in FPGA resources.

Author

Oscar Castaneda

Cornell University

Sven Jacobsson

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Giuseppe Durisi

Ericsson

Tom Goldstein

University of Maryland

Christoph Studer

Cornell University

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

02714310 (ISSN)

Vol. 2018-May
978-1-5386-4881-0 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2018.8351894

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