Precoder and equalizer design for multi-user MIMO FBMC/OQAM with highly frequency selective channels

In this contribution we propose two new designs of transmit and receive processing for multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) downlink systems that employ filter bank based multicarrier with offset quadrature amplitude modulation (FBMC/OQAM). Our goal is to overcome the limits on the channel frequency selectivity and/or the allowed number of receive antennas per user terminal that are imposed on the state-of-the-art solutions. In the first method the design of precoders and equalizers is iterative and minimum mean square error (MMSE) based. The second is a closed-form design based on the signal-to-leakage ratio (SLR). Via numerical simulations we evaluate the performance of both methods and demonstrate their superiority over two other approaches in the literature.