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본 논문에서는 분산 안테나 시스템의 하향링크 다중 사용자 MIMO를 위한 프리코더 설계에 대해서 고려한다. 분산 안테나 시스템에서 RRH (Remote Radio Head)는 셀 영역 내에서 지리적으로 서로 다른 위치에 배치되게 되는데, RRH에서 적용하기 위한 세 가지 종류의 프리코더 설계 방법을 제안한다. 모든 RRH들의 전송 전력 합, 또는 각 RRH의 전송 전력에 대한 제약 조건 하에서, 개별 SLNR 또는, 결합 SLNR (Signal-to-Leakage plus Noise Ratio) 비용함수를 최대화시키도록 프리코더를 설계한다. 그리고, 각각의 최적화 문제에 대한 분석적 이론해를 제시한다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통하여, 결합 SLNR 기반의 프리코더 설계 방법이 개별 SLNR 기반의 프리코더 설계 방식보다 더 높은 SINR (Signal-to-Interference plus Noise Ratio) 성능과 더 낮은 BER (Bit Error Rate) 성능을 갖는다는 것을 보인다. 또한, 모든 RRH들의 전력 합에 대한 제약 조건을 갖는 프리코더 설계 방법이 각 RRH 전송 전력 제약 조건을 갖는 방식보다 더 좋은 성능을 갖는다는 것을 보인다.

In this paper, we consider a precoder design for downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) in distributed antenna systems (DAS). In DAS, remote radio heads (RRHs) are placed at geographically different locations within a cell area. Three different precoder design schemes are proposed to maximize the separate or joint signal-to-leakage-plus-noise ratio (SLNR) metrics by considering RRH sum power or per-RRH power constraints. The analytical closed-form form solution for each optimization problem is presented. Through computer simulation, we show that the joint SLNR based precoding schemes have better signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and bit error rate (BER) performances than the separate SLNR based schemes. Also, it is shown that the precoding scheme with RRH sum power constraint has better performance than the precoding scheme with per-RRH power constraint.

This paper theoretically analyzes the performance of distributed-antenna orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems with multiple carrier frequency offsets (CFO) using zero-forcing (ZF) detection. Considering both the large-scale fading and the multipath fading of the wireless channel, we derive the average power of the inter-carrier interference (ICI) due to the CFOs and thus obtain the expression for the signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR). By analyzing the underlying characteristics of the ZF detection, we address the reason for the inaccuracy of the conventional SINR expression and propose a novel modified SINR expression with better precision, and hence obtain a closed-form expression for the bit error rate (BER) performance with the presence of multiple CFOs. It is shown by the analytical and simulation results that the analytical SINR obtained by the conventional expression appears lower than actually while the analytical SINR and BER obtained by the expressions presented in this paper are more accurate and closer to the corresponding simulation results.

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) has been considered one of the key enablers of broadband wireless communications. The indoor environment is known to be favorable to ensure both high rank property and high signal-to-interference/noise ratio (SINR) to fully exploit MIMO spatial multiplexing (SM) gain. In this paper, we describe several practical deployment cases where repeater links (or relay links), such as those present with an indoor distributed antenna system (DAS), can act as keyholes to degenerate the rank property of MIMO communications. In this case, we cannot exploit MIMO SM gain in indoor environment. We propose a novel MIMO communication scheme which uses simple converter in the devices in repeater links to resolve the rank degeneration issue and to ensure MIMO SM gain in highly MIMO-favorable indoor environment. MIMO SM is possible over the indoor DAS with single cable line through use of simple converters, which enables practical deployment in real fields.