Wireless Communications with Low-Resolution Quantization

Abstract

Wireless communication systems with low-resolution quantization are envisioned to be a major part in future wireless communication networks because of their potential to improve the energy efficiency of the network. In this thesis, we present a comprehensive and rigorous analytical investigation on the performance impact of using low-resolution phase quantization at the receiver of a wireless communication system, when compared to traditional high-resolution systems. To that end, we consider three different system setups; a point-to-point wireless communication system with coherent detection, a point-to-point wireless communication system with non-coherent detection and a multi-antenna syste..