MMSE Modified Multi-User MIMO Downlink Transmission with Imperfect CSI

By introducing the leakage concept, the maximum signal-to-leakage-and-noise ratio (SLNR) scheme has been served as a candidate precoding scheme in the advanced long term evolution (LTE-Advanced) communication system. However, the original scheme allocates every user the same transmit power and takes the matched filter to decode the receive signals, which results in the limited bit error rate (BER) performance. With the antenna correlation at BS and the channel estimation error for every user, we design a modified matrix by minimizing the system Mean Square Error (MMSE) after maximizing the SLNR under the total transmit power constraint. At each user, a linear decoder is calculated based on the MMSE criteria in the presence of imperfect channel state information (ICSI). Due to the dynamic power allocation during the parallel data streams and the linear MMSE (LMMSE) receiver, the proposed scheme can mitigate the residual interference induced by ICSI and improve the system BER performance efficiently.