EQSM-based multiuser MIMO downlink transmission for correlated fading channels

Abstract

Abstract This paper presents three multiuser multiple input-multiple output (MU-MIMO) downlink transmission strategies based on the extended quadrature spatial modulation (EQSM) system for mobile communication. The three MU-MIMO precoding strategies utilised are block diagonalisation (BD), dirty paper coding (DPC), and a combined BD-DPC strategy. We analyse and compare the performance of these three MU-MIMO-EQSM schemes with the conventional MU-MIMO spatial multiplexing (MU-MIMO-SMux) system in terms of bit error rate (BER) and detection complexity considering correlated and uncorrelated fading channels. Results show that the BD-MIMO-EQSM and DPC-MIMO-EQSM systems outperform by 2−3 dB in BER performance their conventional counterparts with the additional advantage of a detection complexity reduction of up to 62% for the analysed cases. For the uncorrelated fading channel, the BD technique has better BER performance for a spectral efficiency (SE) of 12 bits per channel use (bpcu), while the DPC technique has better BER performance for an SE of 8 bpcu. Considering the correlated channel, DPC suffers a deep BER degradation of up to 30 dB compared with BD. However, still in this scenario, both proposed MU-MIMO-EQSM systems outperform their conventional counterparts. In terms of detection complexity, DPC has a complexity reduction of 77% as compared with the BD technique. The BD-DPC-MIMO-EQSM hybrid system heritages the low detection complexity of DPC with the advantage of all users in the system having the same BER performance.

Keywords

• Extended QSM
• Spatial modulation
• Multiuser MIMO
• Correlated channels