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Sum-rate Maximizing in Downlink Massive MIMO Systems with Circuit Power Consumption
The downlink of a single cell base station (BS) equipped with large-scale
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is investigated in this paper. As
the number of antennas at the base station becomes large, the power consumed at
the RF chains cannot be anymore neglected. So, a circuit power consumption
model is introduced in this work. It involves that the maximal sum-rate is not
obtained when activating all the available RF chains. Hence, the aim of this
work is to find the optimal number of activated RF chains that maximizes the
sum-rate. Computing the optimal number of activated RF chains must be
accompanied by an adequate antenna selection strategy. First, we derive
analytically the optimal number of RF chains to be activated so that the
average sum-rate is maximized under received equal power. Then, we propose an
efficient greedy algorithm to select the sub-optimal set of RF chains to be
activated with regards to the system sum-rate. It allows finding the balance
between the power consumed at the RF chains and the transmitted power. The
performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with the optimal performance
given by brute force search (BFS) antenna selection. Simulations allow to
compare the performance given by greedy, optimal and random antenna selection
algorithms.Comment: IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing,
Networking and Communications (WiMob 2015
Resource allocation for transmit hybrid beamforming in decoupled millimeter wave multiuser-MIMO downlink
This paper presents a study on joint radio resource allocation and hybrid precoding in multicarrier massive multiple-input multiple-output communications for 5G cellular networks. In this paper, we present the resource allocation algorithm to maximize the proportional fairness (PF) spectral efficiency under the per subchannel power and the beamforming rank constraints. Two heuristic algorithms are designed. The proportional fairness hybrid beamforming algorithm provides the transmit precoder with a proportional fair spectral efficiency among users for the desired number of radio-frequency (RF) chains. Then, we transform the number of RF chains or rank constrained optimization problem into convex semidefinite programming (SDP) problem, which can be solved by standard techniques. Inspired by the formulated convex SDP problem, a low-complexity, two-step, PF-relaxed optimization algorithm has been provided for the formulated convex optimization problem. Simulation results show that the proposed suboptimal solution to the relaxed optimization problem is near-optimal for the signal-to-noise ratio SNR <= 10 dB and has a performance gap not greater than 2.33 b/s/Hz within the SNR range 0-25 dB. It also outperforms the maximum throughput and PF-based hybrid beamforming schemes for sum spectral efficiency, individual spectral efficiency, and fairness index
On the Number of RF Chains and Phase Shifters, and Scheduling Design with Hybrid Analog-Digital Beamforming
This paper considers hybrid beamforming (HB) for downlink multiuser massive
multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with frequency selective
channels. For this system, first we determine the required number of radio
frequency (RF) chains and phase shifters (PSs) such that the proposed HB
achieves the same performance as that of the digital beamforming (DB) which
utilizes (number of transmitter antennas) RF chains. We show that the
performance of the DB can be achieved with our HB just by utilizing RF
chains and PSs, where is the rank of the
combined digital precoder matrices of all sub-carriers. Second, we provide a
simple and novel approach to reduce the number of PSs with only a negligible
performance degradation. Numerical results reveal that only PSs per RF
chain are sufficient for practically relevant parameter settings. Finally, for
the scenario where the deployed number of RF chains is less than ,
we propose a simple user scheduling algorithm to select the best set of users
in each sub-carrier. Simulation results validate theoretical expressions, and
demonstrate the superiority of the proposed HB design over the existing HB
designs in both flat fading and frequency selective channels.Comment: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Minor Revision
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