A Continuous Vector-Perturbation for Multi-Antenna Multi-User Communication

Abstract: The sum-rate of the broadcast channel in a multi-antenna multi-user communication system can be achieved by using precoding and adding a regular perturbation to the data vector. The perturbation can be removed by the modulus function, thus transparent to the receiver, but the information of the precoding matrix is needed to decode the symbols. This paper proposes a new technique to improve the multi-antenna multi-user system, by adding a continuous perturbation to the data vector without the need of information on the precoding matrix to be known at the receiver. The perturbation vector will be treated as interference at the receiver, thus it will be transparent to the receiver. The derivation of the continuous vector perturbation is provided by maximizing the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio or minimizing the minimum mean square error of the received signal.