Virtual MIMO in multi-cell distributed antenna systems: Coordinated transmissions with large-scale csit

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2067-2081

  Feng, Wei ^a   Wang, Yanmin ^a   Ge, Ning ^a   Lu, Jianhua ^a   Zhang, Junshan ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AZ 85281   (United States)

Author keywords

coordinated transmission; Distributed antenna system (DAS); large scale CSIT; virtual MIMO

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AT THE TRANSMITTERS; DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM; INTERCELL INTERFERENCE; LARGE-SCALE CSIT; SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION METHODS; TRANSMISSION PROBLEM; VIRTUAL MIMO; VIRTUAL MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT;

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSMITTERS;

MIMO SYSTEMS;

EID: 84884583177     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.131009     Document Type: Article

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