Efficient radio resource management and transceiver signal processing for multiple antenna heterogeneous cellular networks

该提案的总体目标是为未来多功能无线通信网络开发低复杂度无线电资源管理（RRM）和发送/接收信号处理技术，其主要应用目标是下一代蜂窝无线电系统和网络，也称为第五代（5G）蜂窝网络，预计将在未来四年内开始商业部署。5G蜂窝的当前愿景得到了几乎所有利益相关者的广泛共享和支持，包括三种主要使用场景：增强型移动宽带、超可靠和低延迟通信（相对较低的移动性和提供更强的安全性），以及低能耗、低比特率的大规模机器类型通信（广域物联网）。拟议项目的重点是实现第一种使用场景的解决方案，即增强型移动宽带，预计将为网络覆盖区域内95%的用户提供增强的区域容量（高达约1tb /s/km2）和超过100mb /s的用户数据速率。这些都是非常具有挑战性的网络性能目标，需要非常创新的使能技术方法。本项目将研究其中一些最有前途的方法，如下：(1)密集协调多天线异构蜂窝网络（HetNets）的动态以用户为中心的聚类；(2)具有成本效益的大型天线阵列（大规模）MIMO（多输入多输出）系统信号处理和RRM技术，对实现缺陷具有鲁棒性；(3) MIMO HetNets与大规模MIMO发送/接收的协同作用。拟议项目的任务分布在三年的时间里，预计在此过程中获得的新知识和专业知识将为5G蜂窝网络的成功标准化、开发和部署做出重要而及时的贡献。它的结果将对我们的工业合作伙伴TELUS Communications具有很高的兴趣和价值，但也将对整个加拿大电信行业非常有益，该行业传统上是加拿大经济的一个非常重要的部分。

The general objective of this proposal is the development of reduced-complexity radio resource management (RRM) and transmitter/receiver signal processing techniques for future multifunctional wireless communication networks, and its key application target is the next generation of cellular radio systems and networks, also known as the 5th generation (5G) cellular network, commercial deployment of which is expected to begin within the next four years. The current vision of 5G cellular, widely shared and supported by practically all stakeholders, includes three primary usage scenarios: enhanced mobile broadband, ultra-reliable and low latency communications (at relatively low mobility and providing much stronger security), and low-energy low-bit-rate massive machine-type communications (wide-area Internet-of-Things). The focus of the proposed project is on solutions enabling the first usage scenario, enhanced mobile broadband, which is expected to provide enhanced area capacity (up to about 1 Tb/s/km2) and user data rates above 100 Mb/s for 95% of users within the network's coverage area.These are very challenging network performance targets that will require very innovative enabling technological approaches. This project will investigate some of the most promising of them, as follows: (1) dynamic user-centric clustering for dense coordinated multiple-antenna heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets); (2) cost-efficiently implementable signal processing and RRM techniques for large-antenna-array (massive) MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems, robust to implementation imperfections; (3) synergy of MIMO HetNets with massive MIMO transmission/reception. The proposed project's tasks are spread over three years and the new knowledge and expertise acquired in its course are expected to contribute in a significant and timely way to the successful standardization, development and deployment of 5G cellular networks. Its results will be of high interest and value to our collaborative industrial partner, TELUS Communications, but will also be very beneficial to the entire Canadian telecommunication industry, which has traditionally been a very important segment of the Canadian economy.