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Receive Beamforming Designed for Massive Multi-User MIMO Detection via Gaussian Belief Propagation

Takanobu DOI, Jun SHIKIDA, Daichi SHIRASE, Kazushi MURAOKA, Naoto ISHII, Takumi TAKAHASHI, Shinsuke IBI

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This paper proposes two full-digital receive beamforming (BF) methods for low-complexity and high-accuracy uplink signal detection via Gaussian belief propagation (GaBP) at base stations (BSs) adopting massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) for open radio access network (O-RAN). In addition, beyond fifth generation mobile communication (beyond 5G) systems will increase uplink capacity. In the scenarios such as O-RAN and beyond 5G, it is vital to reduce the cost of the BSs by limiting the bandwidth of fronthaul (FH) links, and the dimensionality reduction of the received signal based on the receive BF at a radio unit is a well-known strategy to reduce the amount of data transported via the FH links. In this paper, we clarify appropriate criteria for designing a BF weight considering the subsequent GaBP signal detection with the proposed methods: singular-value-decomposition-based BF and QR-decomposition-based BF with the aid of discrete-Fourier-transformation-based spreading. Both methods achieve the dimensionality reduction without compromising the desired signal power by taking advantage of a null space of channels. The proposed receive BF methods reduce correlations between the received signals in the BF domain, which improves the robustness of GaBP against spatial correlation among fading coefficients. Simulation results assuming realistic BS and user equipment arrangement show that the proposed methods improve detection capability while significantly reducing the computational cost.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E106-B No.9 pp.758-767
Publication Date
2023/09/01
Publicized
2023/03/08
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2022FGP0004
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Technologies and Proof-of-Concept Activities for 5G Advanced and 6G)
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Authors

Takanobu DOI
  NEC Corporation
Jun SHIKIDA
  NEC Corporation
Daichi SHIRASE
  NEC Corporation
Kazushi MURAOKA
  NEC Corporation
Naoto ISHII
  NEC Corporation
Takumi TAKAHASHI
  Osaka University
Shinsuke IBI
  Doshisha University

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