High-Mobility CoMP Massive MIMO Uplink Transmissions: Channel PSD Analysis and Doppler Spread Suppression

Abstract

Coordinated Multi-Point transmission/reception (CoMP) is one of the promising techniques for high-mobility wireless communications systems to increase cell edge user throughput in both uplink and downlink transmission. In this paper, we consider the high-mobility CoMP uplink transmission, where a high-speed terminal (HST) simultaneously transmits signals to multiple base stations (BSs) with angle-domain Doppler shifts compensation. We derive the exact channel power spectrum density (PSD) for uplink CoMP transmissions. The antenna weighting technique is then proposed to suppress the Doppler spread, where an optimization problem is formulated to minimize the maximum Doppler spread among all the BSs. Numerical results are provided to corroborate both the PSD analysis and the superiority of antenna weighting technique.

Keywords

• High-mobility communication
• coordinated multi-point transmission/reception (CoMP)
• power spectrum density (PSD)
• Doppler spread