Iteratively Weighted MMSE Uplink Precoding for Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

arXiv

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive MIMO system with both access points and user equipments equipped with multiple antennas over the Weichselberger Rayleigh fading channel. We study the uplink spectral efficiency (SE) based on a two-layer decoding structure with maximum ratio (MR) or local minimum mean-square error (MMSE) combining applied in the first layer and optimal large-scale fading decoding method implemented in the second layer, respectively. To maximize the weighted sum SE, an uplink precoding structure based on an Iteratively Weighted sum-MMSE (I-WMMSE) algorithm using only channel statistics is proposed. Furthermore, with MR combining applied in the first layer, we derive novel achievable SE expressions and optimal precoding structures in closed-form. Numerical results validate our proposed results and show that the I-WMMSE precoding can achieve excellent sum SE performance. Copyright © 2022, The Authors. All rights reserved.

DOI

10.48550/arXiv.2201.11299

Publication Date

1-27-2022

Keywords

Fading channels; Iterative decoding; Mean square error; Rayleigh fading; Structural optimization

Comments

Preprint: arXiv

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS