Journal
IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
Volume 1, Issue -, Pages 133-147Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2020.2964983
Keywords
Cell-free massive MIMO; Ricean fading channel; spectral efficiency; power allocation; UAV communications; user-centric
Funding
- Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Universita'e della Ricerca (MIUR) program Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018-2022
- Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) 2017 MIUR
- MINECO [RTI2018-101040-A-I00]
- Post-Doctoral Junior Leader Fellowship Programme from la Caixa Banking Foundation
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We study support for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications through a cell-free massive MIMO architecture, wherein a large number of access points (APs) is deployed in place of large co-located massive MIMO arrays. We consider also a variation of the pure cell-free architecture by applying a user-centric association approach, where each user is served only from a subset of APs in the network. Under the general assumption that the propagation channel between the mobile stations, either UAVs or ground users (GUEs), and the APs follows a Ricean distribution, we derive closed form spectral efficiency lower bounds for uplink and downlink with linear minimum mean square error channel estimation. We consider several power allocation and user scheduling strategies for such a system, and, among these, also minimum-rate maximizing power allocation strategies to improve the system fairness. Our numerical results reveal that cell-free massive MIMO architecture and its low-complexity user-centric alternative may provide better performance than a traditional multi-cell massive MIMO network deployment.
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