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Power allocation for massive MIMO: impact of power amplifier efficiency

大规模MIMO系统资源分配:功率放大器效率的影响

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With the rapid development of information technology, massive MIMO is becoming attractive for the fifth generation (5G) communication because of its outstanding performance in both spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Recently, many algorithms have been proposed to improve the EE while achieving high SE in massive MIMO systems. In previous work, the power amplifier (PA) efficiency is always considered as a constant. However, the PA efficiency changes with the output power in reality. In the practical situation, the simplification which treats the PA efficiency as a constant will not get the EE optimization based on our analysis. In this paper, we propose a more general EE model of massive MIMO systems considering PA efficiency as a variable, and investigate a power allocation algorithm based on zero-forcing (ZF) precoding so that we can guarantee the SE and EE at the same time. Simulation results show the trade-off between EE and SE, demonstrate the distinction with previous work, and imply that relatively higher transmit power will be more energy efficient.

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功率放大器的效率会随输出功率不同而改变,与以往将功放效率作为常数的研究不同,本文将功放效率考虑为输出功率的函数,在功放效率可变的情况下,探究使下行链路能量效率最大化的资源分配方案,证明了在恒包络预编码情况下,简化后的优化的问题是凸优化问题,可以利用迭代算法进行求解,仿真结果表明,在高频谱效率区域,功放效率对系统能量效率有明显的影响。

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    Yingchu Guo, Junlin Tang, Gang Wu & Shaoqian Li

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Guo, Y., Tang, J., Wu, G. et al. Power allocation for massive MIMO: impact of power amplifier efficiency. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 59, 1–9 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-015-5513-5

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