Title
Improving Sum-Rate of Cell-Free Massive MIMO With Expanded Compute-and-Forward
Abstract
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) employs a large number of distributed access points (APs) to serve a small number of user equipments (UEs) via the same time/frequency resource. Due to the strong macro diversity gain, cell-free massive MIMO can considerably improve the achievable sum-rate compared to conventional cellular massive MIMO. However, the performance of cell-free massive MIMO is upper limited by inter-user interference (IUI) when employing simple maximum ratio combining (MRC) at receivers. To harness IUI, the expanded compute-and-forward (ECF) framework is adopted. In particular, we propose power control algorithms for the parallel computation and successive computation in the ECF framework, respectively, to exploit the performance gain and then improve the system performance. Furthermore, we propose an AP selection scheme and the application of different decoding orders for the successive computation. Finally, numerical results demonstrate that ECF frameworks outperform the conventional CF and MRC frameworks in terms of achievable sum-rate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TSP.2021.3129337
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cell-free massive MIMO,expanded compute-and-forward,power control,sum rate
Journal
70
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1053-587X
3
0.39
References 
Authors
29
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiayi Zhang191174.44
jing zhang2151.89
Derrick Wing Kwan Ng33588189.08
Shi Jin43744274.70
Bo Ai51581185.94