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Low Complexity Iterative-QR (IQR) Precoder Design Based on Structure Blocks for Massive MIMO System

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Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology is a promising technique having a high spectral efficiency for future wireless systems. Counterintuitively, the practical issues of transmitted signals are being attenuated by fading, propagation limitations, and implement non-linear precoding are solved by enlarging system dimensions. However, the computational complexity of precoding grows with the system dimensions. The existence block diagonalization (BD) precoding, which completely pre-cancels the multiuser interference is very complicated to implement with the use of a large number of BS antennas, since it considers full multiplexing order. Motivated by the high performance of the BD and generalized for the case when the users have multiple antennas, we propose a structure blocks based on iterative QR decompositions (IQRDs) to compute the precoding scheme. The proposed BLIQR-based precoder designed partitioned the channel matrix into capable square-wise blocks matrix and the IQRDs are applied to the blocks channel matrix. The channel matrix is partitioned such that it can fulfill the multiplexing order for the use in Massive MIMO. The computational complexity of the proposed design is effectively reduced and the sum-rate performance is improved, especially in large number of BS antennas. The performance of the proposed scheme achieves a good trade-off between throughput and computational complexity.

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  1. Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM 43400, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Li Suet Mok, Nor K. Noordin, Aduwati Sali, Fazirulhisyam Hashim & Chee Kyun Ng

  2. Wireless and Photonics Network (WiPNet) Research Center, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM 43400, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Nor K. Noordin

  3. Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing, Universiti Putra Malaysia, UPM 43400, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

    Chee Kyun Ng

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Mok, L.S., Noordin, N.K., Sali, A. et al. Low Complexity Iterative-QR (IQR) Precoder Design Based on Structure Blocks for Massive MIMO System. Wireless Pers Commun 102, 19–30 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-018-5822-2

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