• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2357-2380
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• 2019

In this paper, we investigate the impact of hardware impairments (HWIs) on the performance of a downlink massive MIMO system. We consider a single-cell system with maximum ratio transmission (MRT) as precoding scheme, and with all the HWIs characteristics such as phase noise, distortion noise, and amplified thermal noise. Based on the system model, we derive closed-form expressions for a typical user data rate under two scenarios: when a common local oscillator (CLO) is used at the base station and when separated oscillators (SLOs) are used. We also derive closed-form expressions for the downlink transmit power required for some desired per-user data rate under each scenario. Compared to the conventional system with ideal transceiver hardware, our results show that impairments of hardware make a finite upper limit on the user's downlink channel capacity; and as the number of base station antennas grows large, it is only the hardware impairments at the users that mainly limit the capacity. Our results also show that SLOs configuration provides higher data rate than CLO at the price of higher power consumption. An approach to minimize the effect of the hardware impairments on the system performance is also proposed in the paper. In our approach, we show that by reducing the cell size, the effect of accumulated phase noise during channel estimation time is minimized and hence the user capacity is increased, and the downlink transmit power is decreased.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.4295-4316
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• 2018

In this paper, the performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) dual-hop (DH) amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying networks is investigated, where Nakagami-m fading channel is considered. In order to cover more details, in our analysis, the transceiver hardware impairments at source, relay and destination nodes are comprehensively considered. To characterize the effects of hardware impairments brought in NOMA DH AF relaying networks, the analytical closed-form expressions for the exact outage probability and approximate ergodic sum rate are derived. In addition, the asymptotic analysis of the outage probability and ergodic sum rate at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime are carried out in order to further reveal the insights of the parameters for hardware impairments on the network performance. Simulation results indicate the performance of asymptotic ergodic sum rate are limited by levels of distortion noise.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.148-154
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• 2005

본 논문은 QPSK 변조방식을 사용하는 W-CDMA 사용자 설비 시스템에서 진폭 불균형 및 위상 불균형과 같은 RF I/Q 성능열화 요인들에 의한 시스템 성능열화 현상을 다루었다. I/Q 진폭 및 위상 에러에 의한 인접 심볼 간 거리변화를 이용하여 BER 성능 열화를 분석하였고, Matlab 시뮬레이션을 통해 I/Q 진폭 및 위상 에러에 의한 BER 성능열화를 검토하였다. 테스트를 고려하여 구현된 RF 트랜시버와 변복조 측정 장비를 이용하여 성능열화를 에러 벡터 크기 값으로 측정함으로써 하드웨어 구현관점에서 W-CDMA사용자 설비 시스템의 I/Q 진폭 및 위상 에러에 관한 최소 성능요구 사항과 성능열화 요인 측정 방법을 제시하였다.