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Masoud Arash

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arXiv2022

Real-Time CRLB based Antenna Selection in Planar Antenna Arrays

Estimation of User Terminals' (UTs') Angle of Arrival (AoA) plays a significant role in the next generation of wireless systems. Due to high demands, energy efficiency concerns, and scarcity of available resources, it is pivotal how these resources are used. Installed antennas and their corresponding hardware at the Base Station (BS) are of these resources. In this paper, we address the problem of antenna selection to minimize Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) of a planar antenna array when fewer antennas than total available antennas have to be used for a UT. First, the optimal antenna selection strategy to minimize the expected CRLB is proposed. Then, using this strategy as a preliminary step, we present a two-stage greedy antenna selection method whose goal is to minimize the instantaneous CRLB. The optimal start point of the greedy algorithm is presented alongside some methods to reduce the algorithm's computational complexity. Numerical results confirm the accuracy of proposed solutions. They demonstrate that the proposed antenna selection method only requires a small proportion of the total available antennas to accomplish a significant amount of the total performance, enhancing hardware utilization efficiency. Also, it is shown that the presented algorithm has a high error tolerance.

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arXiv2021

Localization Efficiency in Massive MIMO Systems

In the next generation of wireless systems, Massive MIMO offers high angular resolution for localization. By virtue of large number of antennas, the Angle of Arrival (AoA) of User Terminals (UTs) can be estimated with high accuracy. According to Dense Multipath Component (DMC) channel model, local scatters around UTs can create different multipath signals for each antenna at the Base Station (BS). We obtain a deterministic form for the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) in a multi-user scenario when the contribution of the multipath signals is considered. We do this when the multipath signals are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d) with arbitrary distribution. Then, we redefine a localization efficiency function for a multi-user scenario and numerically optimize it with respect to (w.r.t) the number of antennas. We prove when only a subset of the available antennas is used, CRLB can be minimized w.r.t which set of antennas is used. Then, an antenna selection strategy that minimizes CRLB is proposed. As a benchmark, we apply the proposed antenna selection scheme to the MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm and study its efficiency. Numerical results validate the accuracy of our analysis and show significant improvement in efficiency when the proposed antenna selection strategy is employed.

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arXiv2017

Employing Antenna Selection to Improve Energy-Efficiency in Massive MIMO Systems

Massive MIMO systems promise high data rates by employing large number of antennas, which also increases the power usage of the system as a consequence. This creates an optimization problem which specifies how many antennas the system should employ in order to operate with maximal energy efficiency. Our main goal is to consider a base station with a fixed number of antennas, such that the system can operate with a smaller subset of antennas according to the number of active user terminals, which may vary over time. Thus, in this paper we propose an antenna selection algorithm which selects the best antennas according to the better channel conditions with respect to the users, aiming at improving the overall energy efficiency. Then, due to the complexity of the mathematical formulation, a tight approximation for the consumed power is presented, using the Wishart theorem, and it is used to find a deterministic formulation for the energy efficiency. Simulation results show that the approximation is quite tight and that there is significant improvement in terms of energy efficiency when antenna selection is employed.

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