Multiple-input multiple-output wireless system designs with imperfect channel knowledge

Empowered by linear precoding and decoding, a spatially multiplexed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system becomes a convenient framework to offer high data rate, diversity and interference management. While most of the current precoding/decoding designs have assumed perfect channel state information (CSI) at the receiver, and sometimes even at the transmitter, in this thesis we design the precoder and decoder with imperfect CSI at both the transmit and the receive sides, and investigate the joint impact of channel estimation errors and channel correlation on system structure and performance. The mean-square error (MSE) related performance metrics are used as the design criteria.;With imperfect CSI at both ends, the exact capacity expression for a single-user MIMO channel is difficult to obtain. Instead, a tight capacity lower-bound is used for system design. The optimum structure of the transmit covariance matrix for the lower-bound has not been found in the existing literature. By transforming the transmitter design into a joint precoding/decoding design problem, we derive the expression of the optimum transmit covariance matrix. The close relationship between the maximum mutual information design and the minimum total MSE design is also discovered assuming imperfect CSI.;For robust multiuser MIMO communications, minimum average sum MSE transceiver (precoder-decoder pairs) design problems are formulated for both the uplink and the downlink, assuming imperfect channel estimation and channel correlation at the base station (BS). We propose improved iterative algorithms based on the associated Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. Under the assumption of imperfect CSI, an uplink--downlink duality in average sum MSE is proved. As an alternative for the uplink optimization, a sequential semidefinite programming (SDP) method is proposed. Simulation results are provided to corroborate the analysis.;We begin with the minimum total MSE precoding/decoding design for a single-user MIMO system assuming imperfect CSI at both ends. Here the CSI includes the channel estimate and channel correlation information. The structures of the optimum precoder and decoder are determined. Compared to the perfect CSI case, linear filters are added to the transceiver structure to improve system robustness against imperfect CSI. The effects of channel estimation error and channel correlation are quantified by simulations.