Performance of Multiuser Downlink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With Hard Deadlines
Cell-free massive MIMO (mMIMO) is expected to be a novel network architecture to support massive connections, ultra-high transmission rate, and ultra-reliability low-latency transmission. Therefore, applications in ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) can be served by the cell-free mMIM...
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
IEEE
2022-01-01
|
| Series: | IEEE Access |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9779770/ |
| _version_ | 1828809204873297920 |
|---|---|
| author | Le Tan Ziyang Zhang Dongming Wang |
| author_facet | Le Tan Ziyang Zhang Dongming Wang |
| author_sort | Le Tan |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Cell-free massive MIMO (mMIMO) is expected to be a novel network architecture to support massive connections, ultra-high transmission rate, and ultra-reliability low-latency transmission. Therefore, applications in ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) can be served by the cell-free mMIMO network in the future. This paper considers a multiuser downlink cell-free massive MIMO communication system and defines two events to evaluate the system’s failure in latency and reliability performance of the transmission. The first kind of event is defined as <italic>Transmission Error</italic>, where the value of the downlink rate becomes too high to be supported by the channel between the access points (APs) and user equipments (UEs), while the second event is defined as <italic>Time Overflow</italic>, where the time of packet delivery violates the hard deadline. The probabilities of these events can help evaluate the URLLC performance of the system because the probability of <italic>Transmission Error</italic> reflects the reliability of the transmission while the probability of <italic>Time Overflow</italic> reflects the latency of the transmission. We derive the expressions of the probabilities of these two events and the final probability system outage, with maximum ratio transmission (MRT) and zero-forcing (ZF) precoding, based on the properties of Gamma distribution and the approximation for non-isotropic vectors. We finally provide the numerical results by system-level simulations to show that the expressions are accurate and discuss the influence of the noise variance, the number of UEs, and the precoding scheme on the URLLC performance. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-12T08:52:21Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-e73bf9b37df3408e98771ec26c68001c |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2169-3536 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-12T08:52:21Z |
| publishDate | 2022-01-01 |
| publisher | IEEE |
| record_format | Article |
| series | IEEE Access |
| spelling | doaj.art-e73bf9b37df3408e98771ec26c68001c2022-12-22T00:30:09ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110629106291910.1109/ACCESS.2022.31769469779770Performance of Multiuser Downlink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With Hard DeadlinesLe Tan0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4313-379XZiyang Zhang1Dongming Wang2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2762-6567School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, ChinaNational Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, ChinaCell-free massive MIMO (mMIMO) is expected to be a novel network architecture to support massive connections, ultra-high transmission rate, and ultra-reliability low-latency transmission. Therefore, applications in ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) can be served by the cell-free mMIMO network in the future. This paper considers a multiuser downlink cell-free massive MIMO communication system and defines two events to evaluate the system’s failure in latency and reliability performance of the transmission. The first kind of event is defined as <italic>Transmission Error</italic>, where the value of the downlink rate becomes too high to be supported by the channel between the access points (APs) and user equipments (UEs), while the second event is defined as <italic>Time Overflow</italic>, where the time of packet delivery violates the hard deadline. The probabilities of these events can help evaluate the URLLC performance of the system because the probability of <italic>Transmission Error</italic> reflects the reliability of the transmission while the probability of <italic>Time Overflow</italic> reflects the latency of the transmission. We derive the expressions of the probabilities of these two events and the final probability system outage, with maximum ratio transmission (MRT) and zero-forcing (ZF) precoding, based on the properties of Gamma distribution and the approximation for non-isotropic vectors. We finally provide the numerical results by system-level simulations to show that the expressions are accurate and discuss the influence of the noise variance, the number of UEs, and the precoding scheme on the URLLC performance.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9779770/URLLCcell-free massive MIMOoutage performance |
| spellingShingle | Le Tan Ziyang Zhang Dongming Wang Performance of Multiuser Downlink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With Hard Deadlines IEEE Access URLLC cell-free massive MIMO outage performance |
| title | Performance of Multiuser Downlink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With Hard Deadlines |
| title_full | Performance of Multiuser Downlink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With Hard Deadlines |
| title_fullStr | Performance of Multiuser Downlink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With Hard Deadlines |
| title_full_unstemmed | Performance of Multiuser Downlink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With Hard Deadlines |
| title_short | Performance of Multiuser Downlink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems With Hard Deadlines |
| title_sort | performance of multiuser downlink cell free massive mimo systems with hard deadlines |
| topic | URLLC cell-free massive MIMO outage performance |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9779770/ |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT letan performanceofmultiuserdownlinkcellfreemassivemimosystemswithharddeadlines AT ziyangzhang performanceofmultiuserdownlinkcellfreemassivemimosystemswithharddeadlines AT dongmingwang performanceofmultiuserdownlinkcellfreemassivemimosystemswithharddeadlines |