Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Limited Backhaul

Manijeh Bashar (1) , Kanapathippillai Cumanan (1) , Alister Burr (1) , Hien Quoc Ngo (2) , Merouane Debbah (3)

1 University of York [York, UK]
2 QUB - Queen's University [Belfast]
3 L2S - Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes

We consider a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and investigate the system performance for the case when the quantized version of the estimated channel and the quantized received signal are available at the central processing unit (CPU), and the case when only the quantized version of the combined signal with maximum ratio combining (MRC) detector is available at the CPU. Next, we study the max-min optimization problem, where the minimum user uplink rate is maximized with backhaul capacity constraints. To deal with the max-min non-convex problem, we propose to decompose the original problem into two sub-problems. Based on these sub-problems, we develop an iterative scheme which solves the original max-min user uplink rate. Moreover, we present a user assignment algorithm to further improve the performance of cell-free Massive MIMO with limited backhaul links. aaKeywords: Cell-free Massive MIMO, geometric programming, generalized eigenvalue problem, limited backhaul.

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]

Manijeh Bashar, Kanapathippillai Cumanan, Alister Burr, Hien Quoc Ngo, Merouane Debbah. Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Limited Backhaul. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018), May 2018, Kansas City, United States. ⟨hal-01985028⟩