Iterative multiuser joint decoding: Optimal power allocation and low-complexity implementation

Caire, Giuseppe;Müller, Ralf R;Tanaka, Toshiyuki
"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory", Volume 50, N°9, September 2004

We consider a canonical model for coded CDMA with random spreading, where the receiver makes use of iterative Belief-Propagation (BP) joint decoding. We provide simple Density-Evolution analysis in the large-system limit (large number of users) of the performance of the exact BP decoder and of some suboptimal approximations based on Interference Cancellation (IC). Based on this analysis, we optimize the received user SNR distribution in order to maximize the system spectral efficiency for given user channel codes, channel load (users per chip) and target user bit-error rate. The optimization of the received SNR distribution is obtained by solving a simple linear program and can be easily incorporated into practical power control algorithms. Remarkably, under the optimized SNR assignment the suboptimal Minimum Mean-Square Error (MMSE) IC-based decoder performs almost as well as the more complex exact BP decoder. Moreover, for a large class of commonly used convolutional codes we observe that the optimized SNR distribution consists of a finite number of discrete SNR levels. Based on this observation, we provide a low-complexity approximation of the MMSE-IC decoder that suffers from very small performance degradation while attaining considerable savings in complexity. As by-products of this work, we obtain a closed-form expression of the multiuser ef- ficiency of power-mismatched MMSE filters in the large-system limit, and we extend the analysis of the symbol-by-symbol MAP multiuser detector in the large-system limit to the case of non-constant user powers and non-uniform symbol prior probabilities.


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2004-09-01
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Systèmes de Communication
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1202
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