Study of Iterative Detection and Decoding with Log-Likelihood Ratio Based Access Point Selection for Cell-Free Networks

Author:

R. B. Di Renna, R. C. de Lamare

Keyword:

Computer Science, Information Theory, Information Theory (cs.IT), Signal Processing (eess.SP)

journal:

date:

2023-12-24 00:00:00

Abstract

This paper proposes an iterative detection and decoding (IDD) scheme and an approach to improve the selection of access points (APs) in uplink cell-free massive multiple-antenna systems. A cost-effective scheme for selection of APs based on local log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) is developed that provides sufficient statistics to the central processing unit and selects which APs should be considered for each user. {Numerical results show that the proposed IDD scheme works very well and the proposed LLRs-based approach to select APs outperforms the existing techniques in terms of bit error rate and spectral efficiency while requiring a comparable fronthaul load.

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