Compressive broadcast in MIMO systems with receive antenna heterogeneity

The key challenge in a broadcast system is receiver heterogeneity, where the weakest receiver typically constrains the entire system performance. Traditionally, this arises from heterogeneous channel SNRs at different receivers. In Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems, a further heterogeneity is caused by different antenna numbers across receivers. We propose a compressive broadcast framework to address both types of heterogeneity. By layering compressive sensing (CS) over MIMO transmissions, our framework ensures a received source quality commensurate with the channel SNR and the MIMO channel dimension. Compared with a conventional framework, our framework achieves more smooth rate increase with channel SNR and much higher performance for multi-antenna receivers.