Distributed radio system
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for analyzing a wireless communication signal are provided. A set of linear operations is performed on a received signal vector, which comprises values of a transmitted signal received by a receiver. The set of linear operations is configured to produce an expanded matrix having multiple rows and multiple columns. The column values in each row of the base expanded matrix are summed to produce a processed signal vector. At least one signal parameter of the processed signal vector is measured to produce at least one signal parameter measurement, and based on the at least one signal parameter measurement, at least one column in the expanded matrix is updated to produce an updated expanded matrix.
1. A method performed by a receiver in a wireless communication network, the receiver converting a received transmission into a set of received symbol values, the method, comprising:
producing a base expanded matrix having a plurality N of column values and N rows, wherein the base expanded matrix equals a product of at least one NxN matrix operator with an N×N diagonal matrix comprising the received symbol values;
summing the N column values in each of the N rows of the base expanded matrix to produce a processed signal vector;
measuring at least one signal parameter of the processed signal vector to produce at least one signal parameter measurement; and
based on the at least one signal parameter measurement, updating at least one column in the base expanded matrix to produce an updated expanded matrix.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the updating employs a set of update weights computed from a machine-learning algorithm.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the machine-learning algorithm comprises at least one of an association-rule algorithm, a clustering algorithm, a k-means algorithm, a collaborative filtering algorithm, an artificial intelligence algorithm, an artificial neural network algorithm, a filter-generating network, a dynamic filtering layer, a multilayer perceptron algorithm, or a prediction network.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one signal parameter measurement comprises signal-to-noise ratio, reference signal received power, received signal strength indicator, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) performance, MIMO condition number, sum rate, mean per-user rate, spectral efficiency, bit error probability, signal to interference plus noise ratio, outage probability, or correlation between subchannels.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein updating comprises at least one of multiplying the base expanded matrix with a weight matrix, changing a sign of a selected value in the base expanded matrix, deleting selected values in the base expanded matrix, phase-shifting selected values in the base expanded matrix, performing bit operations on selected values of the base expanded matrix, performing an additive update to the base expanded matrix, and performing an additive update to a base signal vector.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the base expanded matrix is a previously updated expanded matrix.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein updating employs a sparse operator matrix.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing, summing, measuring, and updating are computed on a graphics processing unit (GPU), and wherein at least updating is configured to optimize global memory access, optimize shared memory access, exploit reuse, or exploit parallelism in the GPU.
9. A network device that converts a received transmission into a set of received symbol values, the network device comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable memory; and
at least one processor in communication with the non-transitory computer-readable memory and configured for:
producing a base expanded matrix having a plurality N of column values and N rows, wherein the base expanded matrix equals a product of at least one N×N matrix operator with an NxN diagonal matrix comprising the received symbol values;
summing the N column values in each of the N rows of the base expanded matrix to produce a processed signal vector;
measuring at least one signal parameter of the processed signal vector to produce at least one signal parameter measurement; and
based on the at least one signal parameter measurement, updating at least one column in the base expanded matrix to produce an updated expanded matrix.
10. The network device of claim 9 , wherein the updating employs a set of update weights computed from a machine-learning algorithm.
11. The network device of claim 10 , wherein the machine-learning algorithm comprises at least one of an association-rule algorithm, a clustering algorithm, a k-means algorithm, a collaborative filtering algorithm, an artificial intelligence algorithm, an artificial neural network algorithm, a filter-generating network, a dynamic filtering layer, a multilayer perceptron algorithm, or a prediction network.
12. The network device of claim 9 , wherein the at least one signal parameter measurement comprises signal-to-noise ratio, reference signal received power, received signal strength indicator, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) performance, MIMO condition number, sum rate, mean per-user rate, spectral efficiency, bit error probability, signal to interference plus noise ratio, outage probability, or correlation between subchannels.
13. The network device of claim 9 , wherein updating comprises at least one of multiplying the base expanded matrix with a weight matrix, changing a sign of a selected value in the base expanded matrix, deleting selected values in the base expanded matrix, phase-shifting selected values in the base expanded matrix, performing bit operations on selected values of the base expanded matrix, performing an additive update to the base expanded matrix, and performing an additive update to a base signal vector.
14. The network device of claim 9 , wherein the base expanded matrix is a previously updated expanded matrix.
15. The network device of claim 9 , wherein updating employs a sparse operator matrix.
16. The network device of claim 9 , wherein the at least one processor comprises at least one graphics processing unit (GPU), and wherein at least updating is configured to optimize global memory access, optimize shared memory access, exploit reuse, or exploit parallelism in the at least one GPU.
17. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer-readable memory having computer-readable program code stored thereon, the computer-readable program code containing instructions executable by one or more processors to implement a method wherein a receiver in a communication network converts a received transmission into a set of received symbol values, the method comprising:
producing a base expanded matrix having a plurality N of column values and N rows, wherein the base expanded matrix equals a product of at least one NxN matrix operator with an N×N diagonal matrix comprising the received symbol values;
summing the N column values in each of the N rows of the base expanded matrix to produce a processed signal vector;
measuring at least one signal parameter of the processed signal vector to produce at least one signal parameter measurement; and
based on the at least one signal parameter measurement, updating at least one column in the base expanded matrix to produce an updated expanded matrix.
18. The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the updating employs a set of update weights computed from a machine-learning algorithm.
19. The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein the machine-learning algorithm comprises at least one of an association-rule algorithm, a clustering algorithm, a k-means algorithm, a collaborative filtering algorithm, an artificial intelligence algorithm, an artificial neural network algorithm, a filter-generating network, a dynamic filtering layer, a multilayer perceptron algorithm, or a prediction network.
20. The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the at least one signal parameter measurement comprises signal-to-noise ratio, reference signal received power, received signal strength indicator, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) performance, MIMO condition number, sum rate, mean per-user rate, spectral efficiency, bit error probability, signal to interference plus noise ratio, outage probability, or correlation between subchannels.
21. The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein updating comprises at least one of multiplying the base expanded matrix with a weight matrix, changing a sign of a selected value in the base expanded matrix, deleting selected values in the base expanded matrix, phase-shifting selected values in the base expanded matrix, performing bit operations on selected values of the base expanded matrix, performing an additive update to the base expanded matrix, and performing an additive update to a base signal vector.
22. The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the base expanded matrix is a previously updated expanded matrix.
23. The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein updating employs a sparse operator matrix.