학술논문

Coded Orthogonal Modulation for the Multi-Antenna MAC
Document Type
Conference
Source
2023 12th International Symposium on Topics in Coding (ISTC) Topics in Coding (ISTC), 2023 12th International Symposium on. :1-5 Sep, 2023
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Multiuser detection
Uncertainty
Spectral efficiency
Receiving antennas
Symbols
Decoding
Timing
Multi-user MIMO
massive machine type communication (mMTC)
Internet-of-Things (IoT)
uncoordinated multiple-access
Language
Abstract
This study focuses on (traditional and unsourced) multiple-access communication over a single transmit and multiple (M) receive antennas. We assume full or partial channel state information (CSI) at the receiver. It is known that to fully achieve the fundamental limits (even asymptotically) the decoder needs to jointly estimate all user codewords, doing which directly is computationally infeasible. We propose a low-complexity solution, termed coded orthogonal modulation multiple-access (COMMA), in which users first encode their messages via a long (multi-user interference aware) outer code operating over a q-ary alphabet. These symbols are modulated onto q orthogonal waveforms. At the decoder a multiple-measurement vector approximate message passing (MMV-AMP) algorithm estimates several candidates (out of q) for each user, with the remaining uncertainty resolved by the single-user outer decoders. Numerically, we show that COMMA outperforms a standard solution based on linear multiuser detection (MUD) with Gaussian signaling. Theoretically, we derive bounds and scaling laws for M, the number of users $K_{a}$, SNR, and q, allowing to quantity the trade-off between receive antennas and spectral efficiency. The orthogonal signaling scheme is applicable to unsourced random access and, with chirp sequences as basis, allows for low-complexity fast Fourier transform (FFT) based receivers that are resilient to frequency and timing offsets.