Project Title: Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Computing for Large-Scale NOMA-MIMO Wireless Networks
WINLAB Summer Internship 2025
Group Members: Alexander MarkleyGR, Jeffrey TangUG, Shehzad SultanUG, Brian ChaconUG, Oskar IwaniukUG
Advisors: Minsung Kim, Byungjun Kim
Project Objective
The project will explore non-traditional computing methods for “Non-Orthogonal Medium Access-based Multiple-Input Multiple-Output” (NOMA-MIMO) wireless systems. Both MIMO and NOMA are considered among the most promising techniques to increase wireless capacity by scaling up the number of serviced devices at a time. However, to do so, they require much more computationally demanding processing at the receiver. A proposed solution is to reduce MIMO Maximum Likelihood Detection (MLD) to Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization(QUBO), which resembles a Hamiltonian. We, then, convert QUBO into the Ising form under the Ising model, and use an Ising solver for the best Ising configurations. Finally, the best candidate will be mapped to MIMO Detected Bits.
Over the summer, our team split into three groups to handle …
Weekly Progress
WEEK ONE
Week 1 NOMA-MIMO Presentation
Week 1 LDPC Presentation
Week 1 RF Digital Fingering Presentation
Progress:
- Familiarize ourselves with OrbitLab, ParaMax: quantum-inspired algorithm using simulated annealing and parallel tempering for MIMO ML detection, and other state-of-the-art quantum approaches for NOMA-MIMO
WEEK TWO
Week 2 NOMA-MIMO Presentation
Week 2 LDPC Presentation
Week 2 RF Digital Fingering Presentation
Progress:
- Completed tutorials for GNURadio, USRP2, X310; Reviewed wireless packet detection and synchronization; Reviewed ParaMax architecture
WEEK THREE
Week 3 NOMA-MIMO Presentation
Week 3 LDPC Presentation
Week 3 RF Digital Fingering Presentation
Progress:
- Obtained access to the Grid; Successful SISO transmission from nodes to MIMO rack
WEEK FOUR
Week 4 NOMA-MIMO Presentation
Week 4 LDPC Presentation
Week 4 RF Digital Fingering Presentation
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WEEK FIVE
Week 5 NOMA-MIMO Presentation
Week 5 LDPC Presentation
Week 5 RF Digital Fingering Presentation
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WEEK SIX
Week 6 NOMA-MIMO Presentation
Week 6 LDPC Presentation
Week 6 RF Digital Fingering Presentation
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WEEK SEVEN
Week 7 NOMA-MIMO Presentation
Week 7 LDPC Presentation
Week 7 RF Digital Fingering Presentation
Progress:
WEEK EIGHT
Week 8 NOMA-MIMO Presentation
Week 8 LDPC Presentation
Week 8 RF Digital Fingering Presentation
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WEEK NINE
Week 9 NOMA-MIMO Presentation
Week 9 LDPC Presentation
Week 9 RF Digital Fingering Presentation
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WEEK TEN
NOMA-MIMO Final Presentation
LDPC Final Presentation
RF Digital Fingering Final Presentation
Summary:
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Minsung Kim and Byungjun Kim for their guidance throughout the summer. We also thank Jennifer Shane, Ivan Seskar, and the WINLAB faculty and staff for their support.
