Robust Transmission in Downlink Multiuser MISO Systems: A Rate-Splitting Approach

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 64, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 6227-6242

  Joudeh, Hamdi ^a   Clerckx, Bruno ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Degrees of freedom; linear precoding; max min fairness; MISO BC; quality of service; robust optimization

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MECHANICS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION AT THE TRANSMITTERS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; LINEAR PRE-CODING; MAX-MIN FAIRNESS; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; MISO-BC; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84994430583     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2016.2591501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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