A Precoding Scheme for Polar Coded Uplink MU-MIMO Systems

Multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) is one of the key techniques to meet high spectral efficiency requirements for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G wireless network. To achieve the high capacity of uplink MU-MIMO, a generalized polar precoding scheme based on rotation and permutation (GP-RP) is proposed in this paper, which can enhance the reliability distinctions between users’ channels. Via the three-stage channel transformation, the binary polar coding, signal modulation and the original multi-user channel are successively partitioned into multiple bit polarized channels. To further amplify the polarization effect, an unitary precoding scheme is proposed for the uplink MU-MIMO system without changing the communication capacity. The simulation results show that the proposed precoding scheme can further improve the polarization between the synthesized user channels and achieve lower block error ratio (BLER).