In multi-antenna transceivers with all-digital beamforming, the number of radio frequency (RF) chains necessarily equals the number of antennas, which entails a large hardware complexity and power consumption when dep...
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In multi-antenna transceivers with all-digital beamforming, the number of radio frequency (RF) chains necessarily equals the number of antennas, which entails a large hardware complexity and power consumption when deploying large antenna arrays. hybrid beamforming, which splits the beamforming into an analog part operating at RF and a digital part operating at baseband, allows using as few RF chains as the number of data streams. A further reduction in the RF hardware cost is achieved by imposing additional constraints on the analog beamformer, such as single-phase-shifter implementation and limited connectivity between the RF chains and antennas. In this contribution we consider a downlink multi-user MISO OFDM communication system and present a novel approach for obtaining the linear hybrid precoder that maximizes the weighted sumrate (WSR) under the above constraints on the analog part. Unlike the WSR maximizing hybrid precoders from the literature, our approach exploits the uplink-downlink duality and performs a gradient-based optimization over a suitable manifold which describes the search space as determined by the imposed constraints. The proposed approach gives rise to a WSR maximizing precoder with a better trade-off between performance and computational complexity compared with WSR maximizing precoders from the literature. From this WSR maximizing precoder, two reduced-complexity heuristic precoders are derived, which outperform state-of-the-art heuristic precoders from the literature, in terms of spectral efficiency and/or computational complexity. The performance of the WSR maximizing precoder provides a useful theoretical benchmark for any heuristic precoder with the same constraints on the analog part.
hybrid precoders, consisting of an analog hardware-constrained part operating at radio frequency (RF) and a digital part operating at baseband, reduce the RF implementation complexity and power consumption of multi-an...
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hybrid precoders, consisting of an analog hardware-constrained part operating at radio frequency (RF) and a digital part operating at baseband, reduce the RF implementation complexity and power consumption of multi-antenna transceivers, at the expense of some rate loss compared to an all-digital precoder. The analog and digital parts of the hybrid precoder are commonly designed by performing a constrained matrix decomposition (MD) of the all-digital precoder, which aims to minimize the Euclidean distance between the matrices corresponding to the hybrid and the all-digital precoder. In contrast, in this contribution we determine the zero-forcing (ZF) hybrid precoder that directly maximizes the weighted sumrate of a MU-MISO-OFDM communication system, taking into account various hardware constraints on the analog part. The resulting maximum rate serves as a useful benchmark for comparison with other ZF hybrid precoders. In a multi-carrier massive MIMO scenario, the rate-maximizing ZF precoders show a considerable performance advantage over MD-type hybrid precoders, indicating that the latter precoders are far from optimum. This contribution also investigates the trade-off between performance and computational complexity. Because of the iterative nature of the rate-maximizing ZF hybrid precoders, their superior performance comes with a large computational complexity. When this complexity cannot be afforded, one should revert to the MD-type precoders, at the expense of a considerable performance penalty;among the MD-type precoders, the non-iterative ones have only a slightly worse performance but a significantly smaller computational complexity, in comparison with the iterative ones.
In a cell-free (CF) wideband millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system, a small number of users are simultaneously served by a much larger number of distributed access points (APs)...
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In a cell-free (CF) wideband millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system, a small number of users are simultaneously served by a much larger number of distributed access points (APs). These APs employ hybrid precoders to achieve beamforming gain. However, the beam squint caused by the spatial-wideband effect deteriorates the system performance. Moreover, the application of numerous radio frequency (RF) chains increases the power consumption and reduces the global energy efficiency (GEE). The letter focuses on designing energy efficient wideband hybrid precoders using low-resolution phase shifters (PSs) for fully connected (FC) and subarray-based phase shifter (SPS) architectures. A beam squint compensation (BSC) algorithm is proposed based on an iterative heuristic Gram-Schmidt algorithm to design the wideband hybrid precoder with the maximal number of RF chains. Based on the above wideband hybrid precoders, the number of RF chains is optimized as a shortest-path problem and solved by a novel bidirectional greedy tree search algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed wideband hybrid precoder design can improve the GEE performance.
This letter investigates the downlink of a cell-free millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system, where many access points (APs) cooperatively serve a user. Although the intensive de...
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This letter investigates the downlink of a cell-free millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system, where many access points (APs) cooperatively serve a user. Although the intensive deployment of APs can dramatically improve the system capacity, it also increases the network energy consumption substantially. To track the non-concave global energy-efficiency (GEE) optimization problem, we decompose it into hybrid precoder design and power allocation design. A novel dynamic subarray with quantized phase shifters (DS-QPS) hybrid precoder is introduced, where each radio frequency (RF) chain only connects to a disjointed subset of antennas. The optimization problem of the number of RF chains is formulated as an eigenvalue maximization problem considering a realistic power consumption model. For power allocation, a new centralized framework is exploited to solve a sequence of simpler power allocation subproblems while still aiming at the GEE maximization by merging with fractional programming, non-cooperative game theory, and gradient-assisted binary search (GABS) algorithm. Simulations show that the joint design is more energy-efficient than the baselines.
Wireless communication using millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands requires a large number of antennas with a reduced number of radio frequency chains. hybrid precoding provides a viable solution to these requirements, reduc...
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Wireless communication using millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands requires a large number of antennas with a reduced number of radio frequency chains. hybrid precoding provides a viable solution to these requirements, reducing the manufacturing cost and power consumption while maintaining an operable performance at the price of increasing the computational complexity. This paper proposes a hybrid precoding method that computes the baseband beamformer in a less complex fashion. The considered low-dimensional digital precoder requires a matrix inversion operation, which is obtained via approximation through an iterative scheme based on the secant method. Exhaustive numerical results evidence that the less complex proposed hybrid precoders offer satisfactory spectral efficiency and BER performance in multiple scenarios.
Millimetre wave communication and massive MIMO are eminent candidates, to meet the requirements in a 5G network. The Combination of these techniques will impart an innovative and efficient transceiver signal processin...
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This paper proposes a hybrid precoder based on low-cost and high-energy-efficient analog components. The considered hardware architecture requires switches and inverters instead of phase shifters, which significantly ...
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This paper proposes a hybrid precoder based on low-cost and high-energy-efficient analog components. The considered hardware architecture requires switches and inverters instead of phase shifters, which significantly reduces the freedom degrees for the analog signal processing in the compensation for reducing the manufacturing cost and power consumption. Since the hardware architecture is based on switches, the proposed analog beamformer performs an effective and low computational complexity switching algorithm, which aims to maximize the system's sum rate. On the other hand, the proposed baseband beamformer performs a twofold procedure that eliminates the inter-user interference and increases the signal-to-noise ratio, further increasing the systems' sum rate. Simulation results show that although the freedom degrees to generate the analog beamformer are low, the proposed method overcomes hybrid precoders with phase shifters of up to 3 bits resolution in terms of BER, sum-rate, and energy efficiency.
This work conceives techniques for the design of hybrid precoders/combiners for optimal bit allocation in frequency selective millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency divisio...
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This work conceives techniques for the design of hybrid precoders/combiners for optimal bit allocation in frequency selective millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, toward transmission rate maximization. Initially, the optimal fully digital ideal precoder/ combiner design is derived together with a closed-form expression for the optimal bit allocation in the above system. This is followed by the development of a framework for optimal transceiver design and bit allocation in a practical mmWave MIMO-OFDM implementation with a hybrid architecture. It is demonstrated that the pertinent problem can be formulated as a multiple measurement vector (MMV)-based sparse signal recovery problem for joint design of the RF and baseband components across all the subcarriers, and an explicit algorithm is derived to solve this using the simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit (SOMP). To overcome the shortcomings of the SOMP-based greedy approach, an MMV sparse Bayesian learning (MSBL)-based state-of-the-art algorithm is subsequently developed, which is seen to lead to improved performance due to the superior sparse recovery properties of the Bayesian learning framework. Simulation results verify the efficacy of the proposed designs and also demonstrate that the performance of the hybrid transceiver is close to that of its fully-digital counterpart.
In large-array millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, hybrid pre-coding is one of the most attractive research topics. This paper first presents a flexible adaptive overlapped subarray (OSA) architecture for the analog pre...
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In large-array millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, hybrid pre-coding is one of the most attractive research topics. This paper first presents a flexible adaptive overlapped subarray (OSA) architecture for the analog precoder, whose architecture can be adjusted by a connection network. An objective function is formulated to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) in consideration of the insertion loss for the proposed adaptive OSA based hybrid precoder. The optimal scheme is intractable to achieve, so that we present a heuristic hybrid pre-coding scheme, where the digital precoder is designed based on the zero-forcing (ZF) rule and the analog precoder is designed based on simplified EE optimization in consideration of the insertion loss. We discuss the effect of non-ideal factors on the EE performance, such as quantized phases, imperfect channel state information (CSI), and faulty switches. Simulation results show that, when the initial transmit power is large, our proposed scheme offers a better EE performance than the fully digital pre-coding scheme and many other popular hybrid pre-coding schemes. Moreover, it is found that faulty switches make the double-edged effect on the EE performance when the numbers of activated phase shifters and combiners are pre-defined.
Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications have been regarded as a key technology for the next generation cellular systems since the huge available bandwidth can potentially provide the rates of multiple gigabits per sec...
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Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications have been regarded as a key technology for the next generation cellular systems since the huge available bandwidth can potentially provide the rates of multiple gigabits per second. In mmWave multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the conventional precoding is infeasible due to the hardware cost and power consumption. Therefore, hybrid precoding is considered as a promising technology to provide a compromise between hardware complexity and system performance. In this paper, we investigate the designs of the hybrid precoder and combiner in mmWave MIMO systems. We adopt the hierarchical strategy to design a hybrid precoder to maximize the spectral efficiency. In particular, we focus on the optimization of analog precoder and propose a novel iterative algorithm. Then, based on the optimal analog precoder, we compute the digital precoder to improve the spectral efficiency. For practical implementation, the proposed hybrid precoder design can be used in wideband systems with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulation. The simulation results and mathematical analysis show that the proposed algorithm can achieve near-optimal performance with low complexity for mmWave MIMO systems.
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