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Performance Analysis on Uplink Pilot Allocation in TDD Massive MIMO Heterogeneous Networks

Wanming HAO, Osamu MUTA, Haris GACANIN, Hiroshi FURUKAWA

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Massive MIMO (mMIMO) is a promising technology for smart multimedia and wireless communication fields. In this paper, we investigate pilot allocation problem in two-tier time division duplex (TDD) heterogeneous network (HetNet) with mMIMO. First, we propose a new pilot allocation scheme for maximizing ergodic downlink sum rate of macro users (MUs) and small cell users (SUs), where the uplink pilot overhead and cross-tier interference are jointly considered. Then, we theoretically analyze the formulated problem and propose a low complexity one-dimensional search algorithm to obtain the optimum pilot allocation. In addition, we propose two suboptimal pilot allocation algorithms to simplify the computational process and improve SUs' fairness, respectively. Finally, simulation results show that the performance of the proposed scheme outperforms that of the traditional schemes.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E100-A No.11 pp.2314-2322
Publication Date
2017/11/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E100.A.2314
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems)
Category
Communication Systems

Authors

Wanming HAO
  the Kyushu University
Osamu MUTA
  the Kyushu University
Haris GACANIN
  the Nokia Bell Labs
Hiroshi FURUKAWA
  the Kyushu University

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