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Course Objectives:
Understand basic MIMO concepts.
Understand advantages of MIMO.
Understand MIMO transmission models.
Understand typical application of MIMO technology.
Contents
1 System Overview...........................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Basic MIMO Concepts........................................................................................................................1
1.2 MIMO Models in the LTE System......................................................................................................2
2 Basic Principles of MIMO............................................................................................................................5
2.1 MIMO System Models........................................................................................................................5
2.2 MIMO System Capacity......................................................................................................................6
2.3 Key MIMO Technologies....................................................................................................................8
2.3.1 Spatial Multiplexing.................................................................................................................8
2.3.2 Space Diversity.......................................................................................................................10
2.3.3 Beamforming..........................................................................................................................14
2.3.4 Uplink Antenna Selection.......................................................................................................15
2.3.5 Uplink Multi-User MIMO......................................................................................................16
3 MIMO Application.....................................................................................................................................19
3.1 MIMO Mode Overview.....................................................................................................................19
3.2 Typical Application Scenarios...........................................................................................................22
3.2.1 MIMO Deployment................................................................................................................22
3.2.2 Transmit Diversity Scenarios.................................................................................................23
3.2.3 Closed-loop Spatial Multiplexing Scenarios..........................................................................25
3.2.4 Beamforming Scenarios.........................................................................................................25
4 MIMO System Performance Analysis......................................................................................................29
4.1 MIMO System Simulation Results Analysis.....................................................................................29
4.2 MIMO System Simulation Result Summary....................................................................................31
1 System Overview
Knowledge points
Basic MIMO concepts
MIMO models in the LTE system
Higher space diversity gain: Combine the space diversity gains of the receive
diversity and transmit diversity to provide higher space diversity gain, ensure
smoother equivalent radio channels, reduce bit error rates, and enhance system
capacity.
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MIMO Fundamentals. .
Larger system capacity: When the Signal Noise Ratio (SNR) is high enough and
Rank > 1 on channels, MIMO:
In a wireless communication system, antennas are the first section to process signals at
the front end. Enhancing antenna performance and efficiency will bring high gains to
the system. The traditional antenna system has developed from SISO to MISO and
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MU-MIMO: indicates that multiple UEs transmit signals using the same timefrequency Resource Block (RB). Each antenna uses one antenna. The system receiver
performs joint test to the uplink mixed multi-user received signals and restores the
original transmitted signals of each UE respectively. The uplink MU-MIMO
technology is an important means to enhance uplink spectrum efficiency in the LTE
system, but it cannot increase the uplink single-user peak throughput. Figure 1.2-3
shows the MU-MIMO transmission model.
The transmitter is configured with Nt transmit antennas and the receiver is configured
with Nr receive antennas.
hij: indicates channel fading factor from No.j transmit antenna to No.i receive
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antenna
On the receiver, the noise signal (ni) is an independent complex zero-mean Gaussian
variable. Every ni is separated from transmitted signals or ni at different time. Every
receive antenna receives the ni with the same power, that is, 2. Assume the channels
are quasi-static Rayleigh flat fading channels.
The signal model of the MIMO system can be expressed in the following figure.
Matrix: r = Hx + n
The MIMO system optimizes the multi-path wireless channels, transmitters, and
receivers as a whole to achieve large communication capacity and high spectrum
utilization. This is a best space-time diversities and interference cancellation.
total transmit power, then the mean SNR of each antenna is given by: SNR = Pt /2.
The channel capacity can be given by:
where, H indicates the Hermitian transpose and det indicates the determinant. If the
logarithm base is 2, the channel capacity unit is bit/s/Hz. If the logarithm base is e, the
channel capacity unit is nats/s/Hz.
By the singular value decomposition (SVD) theorem, channel matrix H can be
decomposed as follows:
H = UDVH
where UN r x N r and VN t x N t are unitary matrixes, namely, the following conditions
are met:
UUH = IN r x N r
VVH = IN t x N t
D = [KK 0;00] = diag (,,, ), where k is the rank of the channel matrix.
Therefore, the channel capacity of an MIMO system can be further given by:
The channel capacity does not hinge on whether the number of transmit antennas (Nt)
is larger than that of receive antennas (Nr). Generally, you can calculate the channel
capacity upper limit of a MIMO system, because the number of non-zero eigenvalue of
channel correlation matrix is K and K min (Nr, Nt). When Nr = Nt, the channel
capacity upper limit of the MIMO system is Nr times (Nr = Nt) that of the SISO
system.
For the MIMO system, if the receiver has accurate information of the channel matrix,
the MIMO channels can be divided into min (Nr, Nt) independent parallel channels. Its
channel capacity is equal to the total channel capacity of min (Nr, Nt) SISO systems,
and increases in a linear manner as the number of transmit antennas and receive
antennas increases. With the MIMO technology, the system channel capacity increases
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MIMO Fundamentals. .
Linear precoding: Convert antenna domain into beam domain. The known
spatial channel information is preprocessed at the transmitter to increase user
and system throughput. According to the way to obtain precoding matrixes, the
linear precoding includes non-codebook-based precoding and codebook-based
precoding.
In the current LET protocol, the SU-MIMO is used for downlink channels. The
PDSCH and the PMCH can transmit signals using the MIMO. The rest downlink
physical channels are not MIMO-capable and can only transmit signals using singleantennas or transmit diversity. Figure 2.3-2 shows the schematic diagram of the LTE
spatial multiplexing:
MIMO Fundamentals. .
Perform joint coding of data streams at the transmitter to reduce symbol errors
caused by channel fading and noise.
Figure 2.3-3 shows the structure of transmit diversity based space-time coding (STC).
According to a certain design principle, in a physical aspect, the STC uses orthogonal
and quasi orthogonal existing in space domains and time domains to:
Evenly map the coding redundancy information into a two-dimensional spacetime plane.
Mitigate side effects of space and time selective fading caused by radio
multipath propagation.
Implement high reliable and high speed data transmission on radio channels.
Figure 2.3-4 shows the STC schematic diagram.
Typical STC includes the Space-Time Trellis Code (STTC) and the Space-Time Block
Code (STBC).
2.
The SFTD and the STTD are similar and their difference lies in the fact that the
SFTD performs frequency domain and space domain coding for the transmitted
signals.
Carry the same packet data over different subcarriers to obtain frequency
diversity gains.
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MIMO Fundamentals. .
Besides the SFTD with two antennas, the LTE system also supports the SFTD with
four antennas and gives a construction method. The SFTD requires the transmitted
antennas are as independent as possible to obtain diversity gains to the greatest extent.
3.
Delay diversity, a common time diversity method, can be generally understood like
this: the transmitter intentionally makes multipath for the receiver. In the LTE system,
the adopted delay diversity, not only a simple linear delay, uses the Cyclic Prefix (CP)
to perform cyclic delay operations. According to the properties of Discrete Fourier
Transform (DFT), the signal cyclic shift (delay) in the time domains is equal to linear
phase deviation in the frequency domains. Therefore, the LTE CDD is implemented in
the frequency domains. Figure 2.3-6 shows the equivalent schematic diagrams of time
domain cyclic shift and frequency domain linear phase deviation of a downlink
transmitter.
Figure 2.3-6 shows the CDD schematic diagram.
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(a)
(b)
The LTE protocol supports a large-delay CDD which jointly works with downlink
spatial multiplexing. The large-delay CDD extends CDD from an antenna port to an
SU-MIMO spetial multiplexing level and greatly increase the delayed time. Taking the
TDD with two antennas as an example, the delayed time can reach half symbol-period
(1024 Ts).
Currently the LTE protocol supports the CDD with two antennas or four antennas. The
CDD requires the transmitted antennas are as independent as possible to obtain
diversity gains to the greatest extent.
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MIMO Fundamentals. .
2.3.3 Beamforming
The beamforming mode in MIMO system is similar to that in the smart antenna
system. The transmitter will weight the data vector to be transmitted to form a pattern.
After the pattern reaches the receiver, the receiver beamforms the received uplink
signals and inhibits noise and interference.
Unlike the regular smart antennas, the original downlink beamforming targets only one
antenna but now it targets multiple antennas. By means of downlink beamforming,
signals are strengthened in the direction of UEs. By means of uplink beamforming,
UEs have stronger anti-jamming and anti-noise capabilities. Therefore, like the
transmit diversity, the MIMO system can improve the reliability of the communication
link by using the extra beamforming gains. It can also improve the data rate and
spectrum utilization by using higher order modulation in the same reliability.
The beamforming schematic diagram is shown as follows.
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The typical beamforming can be classified into the following two types:
1.
2.
MIMO Fundamentals. .
transmit reference symbols from different antennas to measure channel quality at the
UE side in advance. Site selection can provide the antennas with higher received signal
power for subsequent shared data channel transmission. The selected antenna
information is required to be fed back to the target UE through the downlink control
channel. The UE adopts the selected antenna to perform uplink data channel
transmission.
For the Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode, uplink antennas can be selected based on
the downlink MIMO channel estimate by taking advantage of the symmetry between
the uplink and downlink channels.
Generally, the optimal antenna selection principles can be classified into two types:
One is improving the transmission quality by using the diversity provided by the
optimized multi-antenna. The other is improving the transmission efficiency by using
the capacity provided by the optimized multi-antenna.
Compared with the traditional single antenna transmission technology, the uplink
antenna selection technology provides more diversity gains without increasing
complexity. This technology essentially improves the channel capacity at the cost of
increasing feedback reference symbols.
Orthogonal pairing: Choose two UEs with the largest orthogonality and pair
them up. This method can reduce the pairing interference between UEs but has a
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Random pairing: This method is quite popular currently due to its simplicity,
low complexity, and small calculation amount (UE pairs are formed randomly).
Large channel correlation, however, may cause great interference to the
randomly paired UEs.
Path loss and slow fading sequencing based pairing: Sequence the sums of path
loss and slow fading and then pair up adjacent UEs. This method is simple. The
slow motion of UEs and slow changes of path loss and slow fading will reduce
the user re-pairing frequency. For UE pairs, the sums of path loss and slow
fading are approximate to each other, which reduces the Near-Far effect between
UEs. The channel correlation and interference between UE pairs may be great.
To sum up, the application of MIMO transmission solution can be generalized as in the
following table:
Table 2.3-1 MIMO transmission solution application
Transmission
Rank
Channel rank
Low
Mobility
Data rate
solution
Transmit
Diversity
High/Medium
(TD)
Low
Cell edge
Medium/Low
Cell center/edge
speed
High
Cell center
speed
High
Cell center
speed
Low
Cell edge
speed
Low
Cell edge
speed motion
Open-Loop
spatial
2/4
Low
stream
2/4
Low
High/Medium
multiplexing
Dual
speed motion
Low
precoding
Multi-user MIMO
motion
2/4
Low
Low
motion
Codebook-based
High
Low
beamforming
Non-codebook-based
motion
1
High
Low
beamforming
motion
Theoretically, the virtual MIMO technology can greatly improve system throughput,
but the actual pairing strategy and resource allocation for UE pairs will significantly
affect system throughput. Therefore, we need to strike a balance between performance
and complexity to fully exert the advantages of the virtual MIMO technology.
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3 MIMO Application
Knowledge points
MIMO application in the LTE system
Typical application scenarios of MIMO
DCI format
Search space
mode
Mode 1
DCI format 1A
Common and
UE specific by C-RNTI
Mode 2
DCI format 1
UE specific by C-RNTI
DCI format 1A
Common and
Transmit diversity
UE specific by C-RNTI
Mode 3
DCI format 1
UE specific by C-RNTI
Transmit diversity
DCI format 1A
Common and
Transmit diversity
UE specific by C-RNTI
Mode 4
DCI format 2A
UE specific by C-RNTI
DCI format 1A
Common and
Transmit diversity
UE specific by C-RNTI
DCI format 2
UE specific by C-RNTI
Closed-loop
spatial
multiplexing
or
Transmit diversity
Mode 5
DCI format 1A
Common and
Transmit diversity
UE specific by C-RNTI
Mode 6
DCI format 1D
UE specific by C-RNTI
Multi-user MIMO
DCI format 1A
Common and
Transmit diversity
UE specific by C-RNTI
DCI format 1B
UE specific by C-RNTI
Mode 7
DCI format 1A
Common and
UE specific by C-RNTI
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Transmission
DCI format
Search space
mode
corresponding to PDSCH
DCI format 1
UE specific by C-RNTI
Mode1
Mode 2
PDSCH
PBCH
PCFICH
PDCCH
PHICH
SCH
Mode3 Mode 7
Mode 2 (transmit diversity): is mainly used for anti-fading to improve the signal
transmission reliability and applicable to cell edge users.
Mode 3 (open-loop spatial multiplexing): aims at improving the peak rate for
cell center users and is applicable to high speed motion scenarios.
DCI format 2: indicates the high peak rate, which is applicable to cell center
users.
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DCI format 1A: increases the cell power and suppresses the interference, which
is applicable to cell edge users.
Mode 6 (closed-loop rank=1 precoding): improves the cell power and cell
coverage, which is applicable to service-intensive areas (for example, urban
districts).
Some environmental changes need UEs to adopt adaptive MIMO modes. These
changes are as follows:
1.
Mobility changes: Mode 2 and Mode 3 are applicable to high speed motion
environments without requiring the UE to feed PMI back. Modes 47 are
applicable to low speed motion environments without requiring the UE to feed
PMI and RI back. Mode 2 and Mode 3 are adopted for change from low to high
speed motion. Mode 4 and Mode 6 are adopted for change from high to low
speed motion.
2.
Rank changes:
Channel correlation change: If the channel correlation changes from low to high,
adopt SFBC and codebook-based beamforming. If the channel correlation
changes from high to low, adopt dual stream precoding.
3.
Cell center: The SNR is relatively high. Adopting dual stream precoding can
maximize system capacity.
Cell edge: The SNR is relatively low. Adopting single stream precoding can
provide cell coverage.
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MIMO Fundamentals. .
Relative position changes between users and cells: If the user moves from the
cell center to the edge, adopt the single stream precoding, for example, the
SFBC and codebook based beamforming. If the user moves from the cell edge to
the center, adopt dual stream precoding (rank > 1).
Scenario A:
Scenario B:
Scenario C:
For indoor coverage, the multi-user MIMO principle is similar to the SDMA
principle.
Multiple users can use the same radio resources on different floors due to the
low correlation between different floors.
MIMO Fundamentals. .
Case 2:
Case 3:
Case 4:
Applicable to mode 6.
To sum up, in the primary stage of LTE development, case 1 is a favorable choice since
it can drive LTE network development in most cases. Case 2 is applicable to the urban
areas and complex multipath environments with higher data rate requirements. Cases 3
and 4 are applicable to the secondary stage in LTE development and can improve the
uplink network coverage.
In simple multipath environments, for example, rural areas, use high-correlation
antennas (case 4) to increase the cell radius. In complex multipath environments, for
example, urban areas, use low-correlation antennas (case 1/2/3) to increase the peak
rate.
Low-speed UE.
Note:
Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) is an indication from a UE about the optimum precoding
matrix to be used in the eNodeB for precoding of the PDSCH channel of the UE in the
closed-loop spatial multiplexing transmitting mode.
Rank Indicator (RI) is an indication of the Rank related to channel impulse response (H) in
open- and closed-loop spatial multiplexing transmitting modes. RI = Rank (H).
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MIMO Fundamentals. .
Perform phase rotation of transmit signals to compensate the channel phase and
ensure phase consistency of received signals.
Same antenna weight and channel fading for different antenna ports.
Provide cell edge rates in downlink: Increase signal transmit power and suppress
interferences.
Beamforming Scenarios
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Frequency reuse 1.
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Figure 3.2-4 shows MIMO simulation result comparison in three scenarios. MIMO
simulation can be configured based on actual application scenarios and needs.
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MIMO Fundamentals. .
Frequency
Cell Average
Spectral
Cell Edge
Reuse
Throughput
Efficiency
Rate
Factor
Case 1
Cell Edge
Spectral
Efficiency
8.5631
1.5774
0.2751
0.0507
13.9773
2.5747
0.9195
0.1694
13.4308
2.4741
0.8935
0.1646
21.7142
1.3333
1.0842
0.0666
18.6087
1.1426
1.9028
0.1168
28.6932
1.7619
2.2303
0.1366
=500m,10,2*2MIMO,Rank
Adaptive,20dB, 3km/h
Case 2
500m,4TxBF,Single
Stream,20dB, 3km/h
Case 3
Case 1
500m,2*2MIMO,Rank
Adaptive,20dB, 3km/h
Case 2
500m,4TxBF,Single
Stream,20dB, 3km/h
Case 3
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