scholarly journals Per-link Parallel and Distributed Hybrid Beamforming for Multi-Cell Massive MIMO Millimeter Wave Full Duplex

Author(s):  
Chandan Kumar Sheemar ◽  
Dirk Slock

This paper presents two novel hybrid beamforming (HYBF) designs for a multi-cell massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) millimeter wave (mmWave) full duplex (FD) system under limited dynamic range (LDR). Firstly, we present a novel centralized HYBF (C-HYBF) scheme based on alternating optimization. In general, the complexity of C-HYBF schemes scales quadratically as a function of the number of users and cells, which may limit their scalability. Moreover, they require significant communication overhead to transfer complete channel state information (CSI) to the central node every channel coherence time for optimization. The central node also requires very high computational power to jointly optimize many variables for the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) users in FD systems. To overcome these drawbacks, we propose a very low-complexity and scalable cooperative per-link parallel and distributed (P$\&$D)-HYBF scheme. It allows each mmWave FD base station (BS) to update the beamformers for its users in a distributed fashion and independently in parallel on different computational processors. The complexity of P$\&$D-HYBF scales only linearly as the network size grows, making it desirable for the next generation of large and dense mmWave FD networks. Simulation results show that both designs significantly outperform the fully digital half duplex (HD) system with only a few radio-frequency (RF) chains and achieve similar performance. <br>

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandan Kumar Sheemar ◽  
Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas ◽  
Dirk Slock

Full-Duplex (FD) communication can revolutionize wireless communications as it doubles spectral efficiency and offers numerous other advantages over a half-duplex (HD) system. In this paper, we present a novel and practical joint hybrid beamforming (HYBF) and combining scheme for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO FD system for weighted sum-rate (WSR) maximization with multi-antenna HD uplink and downlink users with non-ideal hardware.<br>Moreover, we present a novel interference and self-interference (SI) aware optimal power allocation scheme for the optimal beamforming directions. The analog processing stage is assumed to be quantized, and both the unit-modulus and unconstrained cases are considered.<br>Moreover, compared to the traditional sum-power constraints, the proposed algorithm is designed under the joint sum-power and the practical per-antenna power constraints. To model the non-ideal hardware of a hybrid FD transceiver, we extend the traditional limited dynamic range (LDR) noise model to mmWave. Our HYBF design relies on alternating optimization based on the minorization-maximization method. <br>We investigate the maximum achievable gain of a hybrid FD system with different levels of the LDR noise variance and with different numbers of radio-frequency (RF) chains over a HD system. Simulation results show that the mmWave massive MIMO FD systems can significantly outperform the fully digital HD systems with only a few RF chains if the LDR noise generated from the limited number of RF chains available is low. If the LDR noise variance dominates, FD communication with HYBF results to be disadvantageous than a HD system. <br>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandan Kumar Sheemar ◽  
Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas ◽  
Dirk Slock

Full-Duplex (FD) communication can revolutionize wireless communications as it doubles spectral efficiency and offers numerous other advantages over a half-duplex (HD) system. In this paper, we present a novel and practical joint hybrid beamforming (HYBF) and combining scheme for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO FD system for weighted sum-rate (WSR) maximization with multi-antenna HD uplink and downlink users with non-ideal hardware.<br>Moreover, we present a novel interference and self-interference (SI) aware optimal power allocation scheme for the optimal beamforming directions. The analog processing stage is assumed to be quantized, and both the unit-modulus and unconstrained cases are considered.<br>Moreover, compared to the traditional sum-power constraints, the proposed algorithm is designed under the joint sum-power and the practical per-antenna power constraints. To model the non-ideal hardware of a hybrid FD transceiver, we extend the traditional limited dynamic range (LDR) noise model to mmWave. Our HYBF design relies on alternating optimization based on the minorization-maximization method. <br>We investigate the maximum achievable gain of a hybrid FD system with different levels of the LDR noise variance and with different numbers of radio-frequency (RF) chains over a HD system. Simulation results show that the mmWave massive MIMO FD systems can significantly outperform the fully digital HD systems with only a few RF chains if the LDR noise generated from the limited number of RF chains available is low. If the LDR noise variance dominates, FD communication with HYBF results to be disadvantageous than a HD system. <br>


2022 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Xu ◽  
David Anguiano Sanjurjo ◽  
Davide Colombi ◽  
Christer Törnevik

International radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure assessment standards and regulatory bodies have developed methods and specified requirements to assess the actual maximum RF EMF exposure from radio base stations enabling massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and beamforming. Such techniques are based on the applications of power reduction factors (PRFs), which lead to more realistic, albeit conservative, exposure assessments. In this study, the actual maximum EMF exposure and the corresponding PRFs are computed for a millimeter-wave radio base station array antenna. The computed incident power densities based on near-field and far-field approaches are derived using a Monte Carlo analysis. The results show that the actual maximum exposure is well below the theoretical maximum, and the PRFs similar to those applicable for massive MIMO radio base stations operating below 6 GHz are also applicable for millimeter-wave frequencies. Despite the very low power levels that currently characterize millimeter-wave radio base stations, using the far-field approach can also guarantee the conservativeness of the PRFs used to assess the actual maximum exposure close to the antenna.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Jiang ◽  
Deting Kong

The large bandwidth and multipath in millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular system assure the existence of frequency selective channels; it is necessary that mmWave system remains with frequency division multiple access (FDMA) and user scheduling. But for the hybrid beamforming system, the analog beamforming is implemented by the same phase shifts in the entire frequency band, and the wideband phase shifts may not be harmonious with all users scheduled in frequency resources. This paper proposes a joint user scheduling and multiuser hybrid beamforming algorithm for downlink massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems. In the first step of user scheduling, the users with identical optimal beams form an OFDMA user group and multiplex the entire frequency resource. Then base station (BS) allocates the frequency resources for each member of OFDMA user group. An OFDMA user group can be regarded as a virtual user; thus it can support arbitrary MU-MIMO user selection and beamforming algorithms. Further, the analog beamforming vectors employ the best beam of each selected MU-MIMO user and the digital beamforming algorithm is solved by weight MMSE to acquire the best performance gain and mitigate the interuser inference. Simulation results show that hybrid beamforming together with user scheduling can greatly improve the performance of mmWave OFDMA massive MU-MIMO system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianguo Li ◽  
Xiangming Li ◽  
Aihua Wang ◽  
Neng Ye

Enabling nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in device-to-device (D2D) communications under the millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) cellular network is of critical importance for 5G wireless systems to support low latency, high reliability, and high throughput radio access. In this paper, the closed-form expressions for the outage probability and the ergodic capacity in downlink MIMO-NOMA mmWave cellular network with D2D communications are considered, which indicates that NOMA outperforms TDMA. The influencing factors of performance, such as transmission power and antenna number, are also analyzed. It is found that higher transmission power and more antennas in the base station can decrease the outage probability and enhance the ergodic capacity of NOMA.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Guangyan Liao ◽  
Feng Zhao

Hybrid precoding is widely used in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, most prior work on hybrid precoding focused on the fully connected hybrid architectures and the subconnected but fixed architectures in which each radio frequency (RF) chain is connected to a specific subset of the antennas. The limited work shows that dynamic subarray architectures address the tradeoff between achievable spectral efficiency and energy efficiency of mmWave massive MIMO systems. Nevertheless, in the multiuser hybrid precoding systems, the existing dynamic subarray schemes ignore the fairness of users and the problem of user selection. In this paper, we propose a novel multiuser hybrid precoding scheme for dynamic subarray architectures. Firstly, we select a multiuser set among all users according to the analog effective channel information of the base station (BS) and then design the subset of the antennas to each RF by the fairness antenna-partitioning algorithm. Finally, the optimal analog precoding vector is designed according to each subarray, and the digital precoding is designed by the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) criterion. The simulation results show that the performance advantages of the proposed multiuser hybrid precoding scheme for dynamic subarray architectures.


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