DCPECCS 2014 Abstracts

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Paper Nr: 2
Title:

Scalable Algorithm Design for High-Level Synthesis and Optimization of Latency Insensitive Systems
Authors:

Wei Tang and Forrest Brewer
Abstract: This research consists of two parts. The first part studies exploration of efficient and scalable high-level synthesis (HLS) algorithms for conventional synchronous designs. The second part explores optimization strategies for synchronous latency insensitive (LI) systems. Crucial to design quality and productivity, current HLS algorithms suffer a good balance between complexity and quality. Existing high-quality HLS algorithms have at least O(N^{3}) complexity. This research develops algorithms that can synthesize applications with sub-quadratic run time. Compared to the state-of-the-art HLS algorithms, ours can generate better or equal latency solutions. The proposed algorithms have the potential to release designers from using different abstraction levels for large scale designs. LI design paradigm, a correct-by-construction design paradigm, provides a fast way for design prototyping which is based on manual observation. This research proposes automatic optimization algorithms to even speed up the prototype process. Algorithm efficacy is tested on a practical micro-controller. Compared to carefully hand-crafted designs, our optimization algorithms can generate designs with better performance and less area usage.
Paper Nr: 3
Title:

Weighted Sum-rate Maximization for Multi-user Mimo-OFDM Downlink with ZF-DPC Methods
Authors:

P. Krishna, T. Anil Kumar and K. Kishan Rao
Abstract: Multi -user MIMO techniques were born due to the urge of high data rates and spectral efficiency in 4G systems. For scenarios with a large number of users to be served in one cell, high capacity gains can be achieved by transmitting independent data streams to different users sharing the same time -frequency resources through the use of MIMO precoding. Linear precoding is employed in MU-MIMO communication system to improve the system capacity and to minimize the receiver complexity. The previous works on optimization algorithm to design a linear precoder to maximize the system capacity is assumed to have perfect channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS).However the CSI available at the BS is imperfect due to channel estimation errors. With enough channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter, MIMO precoding allows to increase multi-user diversity gain. However, without a correct precoding vector selection, the interference between users can seriously degrade the overall network data rate. In a close-loop configuration, the base station (BS) receives from each user the preferred precoding vector and modulation and coding scheme (MCS).To achieve the highest multi -user diversity gains and avoid users interference, the BS needs to recalculate the precoding vector and MCS for each user. Weighted sum rate maximization is also considered, and qualification of throughput difference between two strategies is performed. In this process, it is shown that allocating the user powers in direct proportional to user weights asymptotically maximizes weight sum rate. The goal of this paper is to investigate the performance and complexity of state -of-the - art methods for calculation of precoding vectors such as zero –forcing (ZF) or mean square error (MMSE) and Dirty paper Coding(DPC).
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