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Title: Finer-Grained Decomposition for Parallel Quantum Mimo Processing
Exploiting (near-)optimal MIMO signal processing algorithms in the next generation (NextG) cellular systems holds great promise in achieving significant wireless performance gains in spectral efficiency and device connectivity, to name a few. However, it is extremely difficult to enable optimal processing methods in the systems, since the required computational amount increases exponentially with more users and higher data rates, while available processing time is strictly limited. In this regard, quantum signal processing has been recently identified as a promising potential enabler of the (near-)optimal algorithms in the systems, since quantum computing could dramatically speed up the computation via non-conventional effects based on quantum mechanics. Given existing quantum decoherence and noise on quantum hardware, parallel quantum optimization could accelerate the process even further at the expense of more qubit usage. In this paper, we discuss the parallelization of quantum MIMO processing and investigate a spin-level preprocessing method for relatively finer-grained decomposition that can support more flexible parallel quantum signal processing, compared to the recently reported symbol-level decomposition method. We evaluate the method on the state-of-the-art analog D-Wave Advantage quantum processor.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1824357
PAR ID:
10470113
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
IEEE
Date Published:
ISBN:
978-1-7281-6327-7
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1 to 5
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Rhodes Island, Greece
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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