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Abstract
In this article, we comprehensively investigate the potential of the digital polar radio transmitter architecture for multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) downlink system. In terms of throughput performance, we derive a lower bound for the average sum-rate achievable with Gaussian signaling inputs and zero-forcing (ZF) precoding based on Bussgang decomposition. By diagonal approximation, we derive an approximate, yet accurate, model for the distortion caused by uniform polar quantization, which can be used to evaluate the corresponding sum-rate in closed form. To assess the power efficiency, we provide power consumption models with realistic parameters and values for the quantized polar and Cartesian transmitters, based on state-of-the-art integrated circuit (IC) designs and measurements. Extensive numerical results demonstrate that the proposed quantized polar transmitter can enable excellent performance in terms of average sum-rate, symbol error rate (SER), and out-of-band (OOB) emission level, compared to the Cartesian architecture. Furthermore, the power consumption comparisons show that the digital polar transmitter can save more than 36% in the energy consumption under 64-antenna setting in typical 5G enhanced mobile broadband use cases, thus making it highly appealing for future power-efficient massive MIMO transmitter implementations.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 789-805 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2024 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- 5G
- Computer architecture
- digital polar transmitter
- Massive MIMO
- massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
- orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
- phase modulator
- Power demand
- power efficiency
- Precoding
- Quantization (signal)
- Radio transmitters
- radio transmitters
- Signal processing algorithms
- sum-rate
- zero-forcing (ZF) precoding
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-: Hybrid amplitude/time-based transmitter for future wireless communications
Ryynänen, J. (Principal investigator), Spelman, A. (Project Member), Saleem, A. (Project Member), Cheung, T. (Project Member), Kosunen, M. (Project Member) & Stadius, K. (Project Member)
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding
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Aalto Electronics-ICT
Ryynänen, J. (Manager)
Department of Electronics and NanoengineeringFacility/equipment: Facility