Robust Transceiver Design for Multiuser MIMO Downlink with Channel Uncertainties

Wei MIAO  Yunzhou LI  Xiang CHEN  Shidong ZHOU  Jing WANG  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E91-B    No.10    pp.3351-3354
Publication Date: 2008/10/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.10.3351
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
multiuser MIMO,  downlink,  transceiver,  robust design,  

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Summary: 
This letter addresses the problem of robust transceiver design for the multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) downlink where the channel state information at the base station (BS) is imperfect. A stochastic approach which minimizes the expectation of the total mean square error (MSE) of the downlink conditioned on the channel estimates under a total transmit power constraint is adopted. The iterative algorithm reported in [2] is improved to handle the proposed robust optimization problem. Simulation results show that our proposed robust scheme effectively reduces the performance loss due to channel uncertainties and outperforms existing methods, especially when the channel errors of the users are different.