Noncoherent MIMO Multiple-Access Channels: A Joint Constellation Design
Paper in proceeding, 2021

We consider the joint constellation design problem for noncoherent multiple-input multiple-output multiple-access channels. By analyzing the noncoherent maximum-likelihood detection error, we propose novel design criteria so as to minimize the error probability. For any given set of constellation sizes, the proposed metrics can be optimized over the set of signal matrices. Based on these criteria, we propose a simple and efficient construction consisting in partitioning a single-user constellation. Numerical results show that our proposed metrics are meaningful, and can be used as objectives to generate constellations through numerical optimization that perform better, for the same transmission rate and power constraint, than a common pilot-based scheme and the constellations optimized with existing metrics.

multiple-access channel

unitary space-time modulation

MIMO

block fading

Grassmannian constellation

noncoherent communications

Author

Khac-Hoang Ngo

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Sheng Yang

University Paris-Saclay

Maxime Guillaud

Huawei

Alexis Decurninge

Huawei

2020 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW 2020

9457669
9781728159621 (ISBN)

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
Riva del Garda, Italy,

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/ITW46852.2021.9457669

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