CIF: Small: Exploiting Interference via Data-Dependent Precoding

CIF：小：通过数据相关预编码利用干扰

基本信息

批准号：
2008724
负责人：
Arnold Swindlehurst
金额：
$ 50万
依托单位：
University of California-Irvine
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-10-01 至 2024-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2008724&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CIF Small Exploiting Interference via

项目摘要

In wireless communications, managing interference is a key problem that has been studied for many years. When a cell tower or a WiFi access point sends signals simultaneously to several users, it has to ensure that these signals do not get so mixed up with each other that they can't be separated by the individual receivers. The most common approach is to encode the signals in a way that attempts to completely eliminate this multi-user interference, usually by assigning each signal to an "orthogonal" channel, e.g., sending the signals at different times, on different frequency bands, or using different transmission beams. The goal of this project is to exploit the observation that not all interference is "bad." When the signals are confined to a limited alphabet, it is unnecessary that the signal be received in exactly the form it was transmitted; it is only necessary that the receiver properly decode which symbol from the alphabet of signals was transmitted. While multi-user interference inevitably distorts the waveform, the transmitter can encode the waveform in such a way that the interference does not prevent (and in fact can enhance) the ability of the receivers to correctly decode their respective symbols. The key advantage of this approach is that it enables the transmitter to use much less power to get the same performance, since the interference essentially serves the purpose of adding extra power to the desired signals for each receiver. The significant energy savings that can result from this approach could have a revolutionary effect on the performance of wireless systems, and enable a much wider deployment of wireless network infrastructure and IoT devices at a fraction of the currently required energy consumption. Multi-antenna implementations have become standard in today’s WiFi and cellular communication networks, and are one of the key technologies for achieving the large throughputs and high reliability required by next-generation systems. This proposal is focused on a new symbol-level precoding paradigm that has recently emerged in which not only the channel state information is exploited, but also knowledge of the symbols to be transmitted. This approach provides a powerful extra dimension for optimization that can yield dramatic improvements in performance. While most precoding methods try to eliminate interference, symbol-level precoding (SLP) exploits useful or "constructive" interference and repurposes it as energy for the desired signals. This increases the robustness of the signal detection and enables wireless systems to operate with significantly less power, and thus makes constructive interference SLP a promising candidate for low-cost and high-reliability applications. This project seeks to study methods for reducing the complexity of SLP, operation of the algorithms in scenarios with constrained radio-frequency front ends (e.g., low-resolution quantization, per-antenna power constraints), physical layer security, user selection in large networks, theoretical analyses of performance, network settings other than broadcast, etc.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在无线通信中，干扰管理是一个已研究多年的关键问题。当蜂窝塔或 WiFi 接入点同时向多个用户发送信号时，必须确保这些信号不会相互混淆。最常见的方法是以尝试完全消除这种多用户干扰的方式对信号进行编码，通常是将每个信号分配给“正交”信道，例如发送不同时间、不同地点的信号该项目的目标是利用这样的观察结果：当信号被限制在有限的字母表中时，没有必要以完全相同的形式接收信号。它被发送；只需要接收器正确解码发送的信号字母表中的哪个符号，虽然多用户干扰不可避免地使波形失真，但发送器可以以不妨碍干扰的方式对波形进行编码。事实上可以增强）接收者的能力这种方法的主要优点是，它使发射机能够使用更少的功率来获得相同的性能，因为干扰本质上是为每个接收机的所需信号增加额外的功率。这种方法所节省的能源可能会对无线系统的性能产生革命性的影响，并以当前所需能源消耗的一小部分实现无线网络基础设施和物联网设备的更广泛部署。多天线实施已成为标准。在当今的 WiFi 和蜂窝通信网络中，它们是其中之一该提案重点关注最近出现的新的符号级预编码范式，其中不仅利用了信道状态信息，还利用了相关知识。这种方法为优化提供了强大的额外维度，可以显着提高性能，而大多数预编码方法都试图消除干扰，而符号级预编码（SLP）则利用有用的或“建设性的”干扰并将其重新利用。能量为这提高了信号检测的稳健性，并使无线系统能够以显着降低的功耗运行，从而使相长干扰 SLP 成为低成本和高可靠性应用的有希望的候选者。 SLP 的复杂性、射频前端受限场景中的算法操作（例如，低分辨率量化、每个天线功率限制）、物理层安全性、大型网络中的用户选择、性能理论分析、网络设置其他比广播，该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。