Multiuser 3D massive MIMO transmission in full-duplex cellular system

• Main Authors: Dongmei Zhang, Ximing Wang, Kui Xu, Yijun Yang, Wei Xie
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2018-08-01
• Series: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
• Subjects: Multiuser cellular system; 3D massive MIMO; Full-duplex; Beamspace channel representation; Minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation; Beamforming
• Online Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13638-018-1219-x

Abstract In this paper, we provide an effective multiuser transmission scheme in three-dimensional (3D) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) cellular systems, where the full-duplex (FD) base station (BS) equips two separate large-scale uniform planar antenna array (UPA). In order to reduce the computational and implementation complexity, we investigate the characteristic of the beam-domain (BD) 3D massive MIMO channels and self-interference (SI) channel. We propose the 3D multiuser beamspace transmission (MUBT) scheme that requires the spatial angular information of the users and the SI channel. We show that, due to the reduced dimension property of the effective beamspace channel, the overhead for channel estimation is reduced. Furthermore, a user scheduling algorithm is proposed to enable the 3D MUBT scheme in the FD systems. Finally, both the theoretical analysis and simulation results show the the SI can be effectively reduced and demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed 3D MUBT scheme on spectral efficiency compared with the conventional half-duplex (HD) and FD transmission schemes.