Spectral Efficiency Enhancement With Power Allocation for Massive SC-SM MIMO Uplink

The combination of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and single-carrier (SC) aided spatial modulation (SM), is recently proposed for uplink multi-user transmission over dispersive channels, which has also attracted plenty of research interest. In this letter, first the spectral efficiency (SE) lower bound with non-uniform power allocation for uplink single-cell massive SC-SM MIMO systems is proposed, in which, the base station (BS) applies maximum ratio combining and many non-ideal factors of the wireless channels are all considered. Then, a barrier function-based gradient projection method is proposed to allocate power of each transmit antenna (TA) in terms of SE maximization. The SE lower bound is shown to be tight via simulation results, and simulation results also show that the SE gain introduced by our proposed PA algorithm is mainly dependent on the TA correlation and number of TAs.