Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Energy-Efficient Downlink Operation in Industrial IoT

Xiaomin Chen, Taotao Zhao, Qiang Sun, Qiaosheng Hu and Miaomiao Xu
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Xiaomin Chen: School of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China
Taotao Zhao: School of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China
Qiang Sun: School of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China
Qiaosheng Hu: CATARC Automotive Test Center (Ningbo) Co., Ltd., Ningbo 315100, China
Miaomiao Xu: School of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong 226019, China

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-25

Abstract: Cell-free massive Multi-input Multi-output (MIMO) can offer higher spectral efficiency compared with cellular massive MIMO by providing services to users through the collaboration of distributed APs, and cell-free massive MIMO systems with distributed operations are attracting a great deal of industry attention due to their simplicity and ease of deployment. This paper aims to find an optimal solution for energy efficiency in the downlink operation in the Industrial Internet based on cell-free massive MIMO systems with distributed operations. A system model is proposed, and a theoretical analysis on energy efficiency is presented. The optimization problem of efficient downlink operation is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem, which is further decomposed into two sub-problems, i.e., maximizing the sum-rate of the downlink transmission and optimizing the total energy consumption. The two sub-problems are addressed via AP selection and power allocation, respectively. The simulation results demonstrate that our algorithms can significantly improve the energy efficiency with low computational complexity in comparison with traditional distributed cell-free massive MIMO. Even in the presence of pilot contamination, the proposed algorithms can still provide significant energy efficiency when a large number of IoTDs are connected.

Keywords: industrial internet; cell-free; distributed operations; energy efficient; access point selection; power allocation; optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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