A Signal-Space Aligned Network Coding Approach to Distributed MIMO

• Published in: IEEE transactions on signal processing Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 27 - 40
• Main Authors: Tao Yang, Xiaojun Yuan, Sun, Qifu Tyler
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Base stations; Cloud RAN; Coding; CoMP; compute-and-forward; Degrees of freedom; distributed MIMO; Generators; interference alignment; Interference channels; Messages; MIMO; MIMO communication; Network coding; physical-layer network coding; Uplink

This paper studies an uplink distributed MIMO (DMIMO) system that consists of K users and K' distributed base stations (BSs), where the BSs are connected to a central unit (CU) via independent rate-constrained backhaul (BH) links. We propose anew signal-space aligned network coding scheme. Firs...