<p> We consider the design of the precoders for a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication system equipped with a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) receiver. For such design problems, perfect knowledge of the channel state information (CSI) at both the transmitter and the receiver is usually required. However, in the environment of wireless communications, it is often difficult to provide sufficiently timely and accurate feedback of CSI from the receiver to the transmitter for such designs to be practically viable.</p> <p> In this thesis, we consider the optimum precoder designs for a wireless communication link having M transmitter antennas and N receiver antennas (M < N), in which the channels are assumed to be flat fading and may be correlated. We assume that full knowledge of CSI is available at the receiver. At the transmitter, however, only the first- and second-order statistics of the channels are available. Our first goal is to come up with an efficient design of the optimal precoder for such a MIMO system by minimizing the average arithmetic mean-squared error (MSE) of zero-forcing (ZF) decision feedback detection subject to a constraint on the total transmission power. Applying some of the properties of the matrix parameters, this non-convex optimization problem can be transformed into a convex geometrical programming
problem which can then be efficiently solved using an interior point method. The
performance of the MIMO system equipped with this optimum precoder and a ZF-DFE
has also been found to be comparable, and in some cases, superior to that of V-BLAST which necessitates optimally ordered successive interference cancellation based on the largest post-detection signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In terms of trade-off between performance and implementation simplicity, the proposed system is certainly an attractive alternative.</p> <p> In addition, we also utilize these important properties of our system parameters to investigate an "inverse problem" of our first design. That is, we design another precoding matrix by minimizing the total transmission power of the MIMO communication system subject to a constraint on the average MSE. Also, a closed-form solution is derived when the channels are uncorrelated while simulation results for the minimum power precoder designs is given at the end of this thesis.</p> / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/22300 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Liu, Tingting |
| Contributors | Wong, Kon M., Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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