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Codebook Based Hybrid Precoding for Millimeter Wave Multiuser Systems
In millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, antenna architecture limitations make it
difficult to apply conventional fully digital precoding techniques but call for
low cost analog radio-frequency (RF) and digital baseband hybrid precoding
methods. This paper investigates joint RF-baseband hybrid precoding for the
downlink of multiuser multi-antenna mmWave systems with a limited number of RF
chains. Two performance measures, maximizing the spectral efficiency and the
energy efficiency of the system, are considered. We propose a codebook based RF
precoding design and obtain the channel state information via a beam sweep
procedure. Via the codebook based design, the original system is transformed
into a virtual multiuser downlink system with the RF chain constraint.
Consequently, we are able to simplify the complicated hybrid precoding
optimization problems to joint codeword selection and precoder design (JWSPD)
problems. Then, we propose efficient methods to address the JWSPD problems and
jointly optimize the RF and baseband precoders under the two performance
measures. Finally, extensive numerical results are provided to validate the
effectiveness of the proposed hybrid precoders.Comment: 35 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Trans. on Signal Process, 201
Frame Structure Design and Analysis for Millimeter Wave Cellular Systems
The millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies have attracted considerable
attention for fifth generation (5G) cellular communication as they offer orders
of magnitude greater bandwidth than current cellular systems. However, the
medium access control (MAC) layer may need to be significantly redesigned to
support the highly directional transmissions, ultra-low latencies and high peak
rates expected in mmWave communication. To address these challenges, we present
a novel mmWave MAC layer frame structure with a number of enhancements
including flexible, highly granular transmission times, dynamic control signal
locations, extended messaging and ability to efficiently multiplex directional
control signals. Analytic formulae are derived for the utilization and control
overhead as a function of control periodicity, number of users, traffic
statistics, signal-to-noise ratio and antenna gains. Importantly, the analysis
can incorporate various front-end MIMO capability assumptions -- a critical
feature of mmWave. Under realistic system and traffic assumptions, the analysis
reveals that the proposed flexible frame structure design offers significant
benefits over designs with fixed frame structures similar to current 4G
long-term evolution (LTE). It is also shown that fully digital beamforming
architectures offer significantly lower overhead compared to analog and hybrid
beamforming under equivalent power budgets.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions for Wireless Communication
Matrix Completion-Based Channel Estimation for MmWave Communication Systems With Array-Inherent Impairments
Hybrid massive MIMO structures with reduced hardware complexity and power
consumption have been widely studied as a potential candidate for millimeter
wave (mmWave) communications. Channel estimators that require knowledge of the
array response, such as those using compressive sensing (CS) methods, may
suffer from performance degradation when array-inherent impairments bring
unknown phase errors and gain errors to the antenna elements. In this paper, we
design matrix completion (MC)-based channel estimation schemes which are robust
against the array-inherent impairments. We first design an open-loop training
scheme that can sample entries from the effective channel matrix randomly and
is compatible with the phase shifter-based hybrid system. Leveraging the
low-rank property of the effective channel matrix, we then design a channel
estimator based on the generalized conditional gradient (GCG) framework and the
alternating minimization (AltMin) approach. The resulting estimator is immune
to array-inherent impairments and can be implemented to systems with any array
shapes for its independence of the array response. In addition, we extend our
design to sample a transformed channel matrix following the concept of
inductive matrix completion (IMC), which can be solved efficiently using our
proposed estimator and achieve similar performance with a lower requirement of
the dynamic range of the transmission power per antenna. Numerical results
demonstrate the advantages of our proposed MC-based channel estimators in terms
of estimation performance, computational complexity and robustness against
array-inherent impairments over the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP)-based CS
channel estimator.Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication.
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