Cooperative Communication Using a Virtual MIMO System with a Feedback Channel for Uplink Transmission in Cellular Radio

In future cellular radio such as IMT-advanced systems, we will encounter a difficulty in sending uplink signals. This is because transmit power is limited by a battery in a terminal and we need higher transmit power to accommodate a wider frequency bandwidth in a higher frequency band. Virtual MIMO-based cooperative communication is expected to be a key technology to solve this problem. Especially, if we have a feedback path from the base station to send the transmit parameters, we can achieve much better performance. However, each terminal has an independent oscillator, and we have inevitably carrier frequency offsets. This causes performance degradation. This paper proposes a transmission scheme compensating for the frequency offsets and multi-stream transmission using eigenbeam space division multiplexing (E-SDM). Furthermore, this paper describes the reduction of feedback amount from a base station. From computer simulation results, it will be shown that the proposed transmission technique has excellent performance.