Performance of an E-SDM/FDD system using an iterative weight optimization and control algorithm

This paper investigates an iterative algorithm to control weighting coefficients of transmit/receive spatial filters in a frequency-division duplex (FDD) based eigen-mode space division multiplexing (E-SDM/FDD) system. In this system, weighting matrices of transmit/receive spatial filters are optimized using an iterative algorithm that minimizes the mean square error (MSE) of the virtual received signal, where the receiver feeds back relative channel characteristic information of the forward-link to the transmitter. This paper also presents an alternative feedback control method for optimizing the weighting coefficients of the transmit spatial filter in presence of feedback bit errors; the receiver determines the weighting coefficients at the transmitter and sends back relative information of them to the transmitter. This method will be able to mitigate the performance degradation caused by the feedback bit error. Simulation results of bit error rate (BER) performance proves the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in the E-SDM/FDD 4 × 2 MIMO systems.