eprintid: 10065087 rev_number: 16 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/06/50/87 datestamp: 2019-01-03 14:36:56 lastmod: 2021-12-13 23:52:48 status_changed: 2019-01-03 14:36:56 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Law, KL creators_name: Masouros, C title: Symbol Error Rate Minimization Precoding for Interference Exploitation ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F46 keywords: Interference, Array signal processing, Downlink, Optimization, Signal to noise ratio, Precoding, Quality of service note: This is an OA article published under the IEEE OA licence. abstract: This paper investigates a new beamforming approach for interference exploitation, which has recently attracted interest as an alternative to conventional interference-avoidance beamforming for the downlink of multiple-input multiple-output systems. Contrary to existing interference exploitation approaches that focus on signal-to-noise ratio performance, we adopt an approach based on the detection region of the signal constellation. Focusing on quality of service, we then formulate the optimization for minimizing the error probability (EP) for the worst user, subject to power constraints. We do this by employing the knowledge of channel state information at the transmitter, along with all downlink users' data that are readily available at the base station during downlink transmission. In this context, we also show that the detection-region-based beamforming and the worst user EP downlink beamforming are equivalent problems. Finally, we further propose a sum EPs approach and provide an analytic bound of average symbol error rate performance. Our simulations verify that the proposed techniques provide significantly improved performance over conventional downlink beamforming techniques. date: 2018-11 date_type: published publisher: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC official_url: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2843784 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1562534 doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2843784 lyricists_name: Masouros, Christos lyricists_id: CMASO14 actors_name: Nonhebel, Lucinda actors_id: LNONH33 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: IEEE Transactions on Communications volume: 66 number: 11 pagerange: 5718-5731 pages: 14 issn: 0090-6778 citation: Law, KL; Masouros, C; (2018) Symbol Error Rate Minimization Precoding for Interference Exploitation. IEEE Transactions on Communications , 66 (11) pp. 5718-5731. 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2843784 <https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2843784>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10065087/1/Masouros_VoR_08374931.pdf