Channel hardening-exploiting message passing (CHEMP) receiver in large-scale MIMO systems

Lakshmi Narasimhan, T. ; Chockalingam, Ananthanaryanan (2014) Channel hardening-exploiting message passing (CHEMP) receiver in large-scale MIMO systems IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 8 (5). pp. 847-860. ISSN 1932-4553

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Official URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6781619/

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTSP.2014.2314213

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver algorithm that exploits channel hardening that occurs in large MIMO channels. Channel hardening refers to the phenomenon where the off-diagonal terms of the HHH matrix become increasingly weaker compared to the diagonal terms as the size of the channel gain matrix H increases. Specifically, we propose a message passing detection (MPD) algorithm which works with the real-valued matched filtered received vector (whose signal term becomes HTHx, where x is the transmitted vector), and uses a Gaussian approximation on the off-diagonal terms of the HTH matrix. We also propose a simple estimation scheme which directly obtains an estimate of HTH (instead of an estimate of H), which is used as an effective channel estimate in the MPD algorithm. We refer to this receiver as the channel hardening-exploiting message passing (CHEMP) receiver. The proposed CHEMP receiver achieves very good performance in large-scale MIMO systems (e.g., in systems with 16 to 128 uplink users and 128 base station antennas). For the considered large MIMO settings, the complexity of the proposed MPD algorithm is almost the same as or less than that of the minimum mean square error (MMSE) detection. This is because the MPD algorithm does not need a matrix inversion. It also achieves a significantly better performance compared to MMSE and other message passing detection algorithms using MMSE estimate of H. Further, we design optimized irregular low density parity check (LDPC) codes specific to the considered large MIMO channel and the CHEMP receiver through EXIT chart matching. The LDPC codes thus obtained achieve improved coded bit error rate performance compared to off-the-shelf irregular LDPC codes.

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Keywords:Message Passing; Channel Estimation; Channel Hardening; Decoding; Detection; Large-scale MIMO Systems
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