Status: Completed
General Objective: CEDIA member Institutions in the new transmission schemes, Massive MIMO and Heterogeneous Networks for the next generation of 5G cellular networks.
Participants:
- Martha Cecilia Walls Walls
- Jorge Eduardo Carvajal Rodriguez
- Christian José Tipantuña Tenelema
- Byron Paul Maza Chalán
- Marco Vinicio Morocho Yaguana
- Manuel Fernando Quinones Cuenca
- Francisco Alberto Sandoval Norena
- Darwin Fabian Astudillo Salinas
- Kenneth Samuel Palacio-Baus
Organizers:
- EPN
- UTPL
- UC
Investigation area:
- Mobile Communications,
- 5G Cellular Networks,
- Massive MIMO,
- heterogeneous networks,
- Femtocell systems.
Contents:
- MIMO systems (8 hours)
- Introduction to MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) systems
- Decomposition of the M×N MIMO channel into N independent AWGN channels
- Schemes based on channel knowledge: Linear Zero Forcing Beamforming and Interference Alignment
- The big problem: knowledge of the channel in transmission
- Introduction to Massive MIMO
- Massive MIMO systems (8 hours)
- Massive MIMO check on uplinks/downlinks
- Massive MIMO in FDD (Frequency Division Duplexing) systems
- Massive MIMO in TDD (Time Division Duplexing) systems
- Power Control
- Advantages of Massive MIMO
- Open issues in Massive MIMO. Brainstorming.
- Blind Interference Alignment (8 hours)
- Introduction to Blind Interference Alignment
- Blind Interference Alignment on the Broadcast Channel
- Blind Interference Alignment on a channel with interference
- Multiplexing gain, noise increase, coherence time in Blind Interference Alignment.
- Discussion and future work.
- Information Theory and Blind Interference Alignment in cellular networks (8 hours)
- Review of information theory concepts
- Optimal Blind Interference Alignment on the Broadcast channel
- Demonstrate optimum in multiplexing/diversity gain
- Discussion and future work
- Review of Blind Interference Alignment concepts
- Blind Interference Alignment in homogeneous cellular networks
- Blind Interference Alignment in heterogeneous cellular networks
- Discussion and future work.
- Blind Interference Alignment in Massive MIMO (8 hours)
- Parameter optimization. Power, coherence time...
- Use of Blind Interference Alignment in Massive MIMO. Limitations and advantages
- Interaction of MIMO systems with heterogeneous networks.
- Discussion and future work.
- Simulations (To be distributed throughout the course)
- Review of the concepts of Massive MIMO and Blind Interference Alignment
- Schema Simulation in MATLAB
- Conclusions and Future Work
