Title
Uplink Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Decoupled Access in Multiuser MIMO Communications.
Abstract
In a heterogeneous network consisting of macro base stations (MBSs) and small base stations (SBSs), the traditional cell association policy, i.e., coupled access (CA), is far from optimal, due to the significant difference between the coverage and transmit powers of MBSs and SBSs. Hence, users may choose to associate with different types of BSs in downlink (DL) and uplink (UL), i.e., decoupled access (DA), to enhance spectral efficiency. In this paper, DA in multiuser MIMO communications is investigated in terms of UL spectral efficiency. Firstly, we obtain the UL association probabilities. In contrast to the CA scenario, association probabilities for DA scenario only depend on the densities of BSs. Hence, DA allows UL and DL to be totally independent. Secondly, we derive lower bounds on the spectral efficiency. The lower bounds show that, different from CA, the UL spectral efficiency for DA scenario is irrelative with the transmit powers of BSs, which implies DA allows users to associate with any BSs that can achieve the highest UL spectral efficiency. Finally, the spectral efficiencies for DA and CA scenarios are compared via simulation results, where it can be concluded that the spectral efficiency in multiuser MIMO systems is improved by DA.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Information Theory
Topology,Base station,Mathematical optimization,Mimo systems,MIMO,Real-time computing,Spectral efficiency,Heterogeneous network,Macro base stations,Mathematics,Telecommunications link
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1605.08515
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ran Li103.72
Kai Luo2277.01
Tao Jiang352.76
Shi Jin43744274.70