On the Energy Efficiency of Limited-Backhaul Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Manijeh Bashar, Kanapathippillai Cumanan, Alister G. Burr, Hien Quoc Ngo, Erik G. Larsson, Pei Xiao

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Abstract

We investigate the energy efficiency performance of cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), where the access points (APs) are connected to a central processing unit (CPU) via limited-capacity links. Thanks to the distributed maximum ratio combining (MRC) weighting at the APs, we propose that only the quantized version of the weighted signals are sent back to the CPU. Considering the effects of channel estimation errors and using the Bussgang theorem to model the quantization errors, an energy efficiency maximization problem is formulated with per-user power and backhaul capacity constraints as well as with throughput requirement constraints. To handle this non-convex optimization problem, we decompose the original problem into two sub-problems and exploit a successive convex approximation (SCA) to solve original energy efficiency maximization problem. Numerical results confirm the superiority of the proposed optimization scheme.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Proceedings
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (Print)1550-3607
ISSN (Electronic)1938-1883

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