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Heterogeneous graph neural network for power allocation in multicarrier-division duplex cell-free massive MIMO systems

Heterogeneous graph neural network for power allocation in multicarrier-division duplex cell-free massive MIMO systems
Heterogeneous graph neural network for power allocation in multicarrier-division duplex cell-free massive MIMO systems

In order to maximize the spectral efficiency (SE) in multicarrier-division duplex (MDD) enabled cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO), a heterogeneous graph neural network (HGNN), referred to as CF-HGNN, is specifically introduced to optimize the power allocation (PA). To efficiently manage the interference invoked, a meta-path based mechanism is applied in CF-HGNN to enable individual access point (AP) and mobile station (MS) nodes to aggregate information from the interfering and communication paths with different priorities during message passing. Moreover, the proposed CF-HGNN employs the adaptive node embedding layer and adaptive output layer to make it scalable to the various numbers of APs, MSs and subcarriers. For comparison, a quadratic transform and successive convex approximation (QT-SCA) algorithm is proposed to solve the PA problem in classic way. Numerical results show that CF-HGNN is capable of achieving 99% of the SE achievable by QT-SCA but using only 10 -4 times of its operation time, and it can outperform the conventional learning-based and greedy unfair methods in terms of SE performance. Furthermore, CF-HGNN exhibits good scalability to the CF networks with various numbers of nodes and subcarriers, and also to the large-scale CF networks when assisted by user-centric clustering.

Multicarrier-division duplex, cell-free massive MIMO, heterogeneous graph neural network, power allocation
1536-1276
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Li, Bohan
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Yang, Lie-Liang
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Li, Bohan, Yang, Lie-Liang, Maunder, Rob, Sun, Songlin and Xiao, Pei (2023) Heterogeneous graph neural network for power allocation in multicarrier-division duplex cell-free massive MIMO systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 1. (doi:10.1109/TWC.2023.3284263).

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Abstract

In order to maximize the spectral efficiency (SE) in multicarrier-division duplex (MDD) enabled cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO), a heterogeneous graph neural network (HGNN), referred to as CF-HGNN, is specifically introduced to optimize the power allocation (PA). To efficiently manage the interference invoked, a meta-path based mechanism is applied in CF-HGNN to enable individual access point (AP) and mobile station (MS) nodes to aggregate information from the interfering and communication paths with different priorities during message passing. Moreover, the proposed CF-HGNN employs the adaptive node embedding layer and adaptive output layer to make it scalable to the various numbers of APs, MSs and subcarriers. For comparison, a quadratic transform and successive convex approximation (QT-SCA) algorithm is proposed to solve the PA problem in classic way. Numerical results show that CF-HGNN is capable of achieving 99% of the SE achievable by QT-SCA but using only 10 -4 times of its operation time, and it can outperform the conventional learning-based and greedy unfair methods in terms of SE performance. Furthermore, CF-HGNN exhibits good scalability to the CF networks with various numbers of nodes and subcarriers, and also to the large-scale CF networks when assisted by user-centric clustering.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 14 June 2023
Published date: 14 June 2023
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: IEEE
Keywords: Multicarrier-division duplex, cell-free massive MIMO, heterogeneous graph neural network, power allocation

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Local EPrints ID: 479848
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/479848
ISSN: 1536-1276
PURE UUID: 85cca0ff-b6ee-482b-b439-68d6f4bdb36a
ORCID for Bohan Li: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7686-8605
ORCID for Lie-Liang Yang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2032-9327
ORCID for Rob Maunder: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7944-2615

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Date deposited: 27 Jul 2023 16:03
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 03:09

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Author: Bohan Li ORCID iD
Author: Lie-Liang Yang ORCID iD
Author: Rob Maunder ORCID iD
Author: Songlin Sun
Author: Pei Xiao

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