An unified transmit power allocation scheme with imperfect CSI in both multi-user MIMO downlink and uplink

In this paper, we proposed an effective and unified transmit power allocation (TPA) scheme for the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)-Assisted multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) transmissions in the presence of imperfect channel state information (ICSI). The existing power allocation policies for the SVD-Assisted MU-MIMO system, such as equal power allocation (EPA) in the DL and maximum signal-to-noise ratio (MSNR) policy in UL have been developed under the perfect CSI case. However, the EPA scheme doesn't exploit the CSI and ignores the Bit Error Rate (BER) difference among all singular values meanwhile the MSNR method neglects the noise enhancement caused by the decoding operation at Base Station (BS). Aiming at solving these problems, the proposed TPA scheme takes the smallest singular value and the noise enhancement into account and derives an unified expression for DL and UL. Under the ICSI, the proposed scheme can exploit the power allocation operation to mitigate the residual interference induced by ICSI and improve the system BER performance efficiently.