9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Multi-cell Coordinated Beamforming and Power Allocation with Large Scale MIMO

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256273,
        author={Yuan Zhou and Dan Li and Ang Yang and Shaozhen Guo},
        title={Multi-cell Coordinated Beamforming and Power Allocation with Large Scale MIMO},
        proceedings={9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2015},
        month={1},
        keywords={large scale mimo coordinated beamforming cooperative communication},
        doi={10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256273}
    }
    
  • Yuan Zhou
    Dan Li
    Ang Yang
    Shaozhen Guo
    Year: 2015
    Multi-cell Coordinated Beamforming and Power Allocation with Large Scale MIMO
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.chinacom.2014.256273
Yuan Zhou1,*, Dan Li1, Ang Yang1, Shaozhen Guo1
  • 1: Beijing Institute of Technology
*Contact email: zhouyuanbit@gmail.com

Abstract

We consider the downlink of a multi-cell network where neighboring base stations with large scale antennas share the spectrum and collaborate with each other to improve the overall network performance. This paper utilizes the zero-forcing (ZF) transmit beamformer, which has been proven as the simplest and optimal form for high SNR in large scale antennas system. The objective of the coordination is to minimize the total transmit power and meanwhile satisfy the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements with the minimum total transmit power. Based on the properties of large scale MIMO and sparse approximate inverse preconditioners (AINV), we propose the approximately optimal algorithm and AINV based algorithm. Numerical simulations demonstrate the performance of proposed strategies.