Abstract:

Downlinks of the cellular systems generally have more transmit antennas than receive antennas. To efficiently exploit all antenna resources, a technique that combines the advantage of beamforming and spatial multiplexing has been proposed, which partitions the transmit antennas into neigh- boring sub-groups. In this article, this technique is further improved by Eq. (1) allowing non-contiguous antenna grouping, and Eq. (2) adopting two new grouping criteria: minimum signal distance maximization (MSDM) criterion and maximum correlation coefficient minimization (MCCM) criterion. Simulation results indicate that these improvements can bring noticeable gains in the Rayleigh flat fading channel environment.

Key words:

multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO);beamfor- ming;antenna grouping;uncorrelated channel;semi-correlated channel