A RELIABLE DOWNLINK MIMO ALGORITHM FOR MITIGATING THE EFFECT OF USER EQUIPMENT MOBILITY IN MULTI-USER MIMO IN FIFTH-GENERATION AND BEYOND NETWORKS

Masud Abdulmujeeb Akajewole; Donatus Uchechukwu Onyishi

doi:10.4314/njt.v43i2.16

Authors

M. A. Akajewole Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun Delta State
D. U. Onyishi Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun Delta State https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7581-5779

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4314/njt.v43i2.16

Keywords:

UE Mobility Effect, MU-MIMO, 5G, Outage Probability

Abstract

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless systems offer substantial capacity gains over conventional wireless channels, making them well-suited for future high-speed wireless communications. However, ensuring high Quality of Service (QoS) for users in terms of signal quality, data speed, and reliability are some of the challenges of 5G wireless cellular networks. However, the effect of users’ mobility potentially may result in significant inter-beam interference, which increases the probability of outage in a Multi-User-MIMO (MU-MIMO) system. Although several studies have been carried out to mitigate the probability of outage, most of the studies either considered the impact of user mobility or User Equipment (UE) stationarity in determining outage performance or have used methods with high computational complexity that ignore one or both inter-beam interference and interference from the mobile UEs. This paper presents a model that minimizes the outage probability in the downlink of both mobile and stationary UEs in an MU-MIMO system. This proposed model to mitigate the outages encountered by mobile UEs in different scenarios: when a single UE is mobile when half of the UEs are mobile, and when all UEs are mobile within the proposed MU-MIMO system. These scenarios are assessed within a defined time frame to gauge the extent to which they reduce outage probability and enhance the spectral efficiency of the MU-MIMO system. Simulation results showed that the probability of outage in a discrete time frame and for UEs that are mobile in a discrete-time frame increased as the density of M increased. However, the proposed model minimized the probability of outage and improved the spectral efficiency in comparison to existing systems.

Author Biography

D. U. Onyishi, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun Delta State

Engr. Dr. Donatus Uchechukwu Onyishi is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Nigeria. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) in Electronic Engineering in 1999 from University of Nigeria , his Master of Engineering (M.Eng) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from Enugu State University of Science and Technology in 2004 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) in Communication Engineering from University of Nigeria, Nsukka 2017 . He worked for Nigerian Telecommunication Limited (NITEL), the first Nigerian National Carrier for about two decades. During service in NITEL, he served as switching maintenance engineer in Alcatel System 12 Digital Switch, EWSD (Siemens) Digital Switch in various cities in Nigeria. His last posting in the company was Head, Internet Point of Presence (POP), Rivers State of Nigeria.

He resigned his appointment with NITEL in 2010 and joined the academic staff of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Nigeria same year. His research interest is in mobile networks, Wireless ATM networks, Digital Signal and Image Processing.

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