Robust Hybrid Beam-Forming for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Massive MIMO Downlink

This paper presents hybrid precoding for a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission scheme in a millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO (mMIMO) downlink. In hybrid precoding, the analog precoder is obtained by the orthogonalization of the users’ channel vectors to minimize inter-beam interference. The digital precoder consists of a zero-forcing precoder to minimize inter-user interference. In order to break the barrier of one user per beam, we utilize the NOMA within the beam for power domain multiplexing among users. Simulation results show the proposed scheme’s efficacy compared to the state-of-the-art schemes and provide 1.48 times better sum-rate performance at 10 dB received SNR.

Resistance of Polymeric Laminates Reinforced with Fabrics against the Growth of Delaminations

Dependence of the initiation values of the Strain Energy Release Rate, GCi, on the orientation of the reinforcement direction α relative to the delamination front was investigated for two laminates of different interfacial ply arrangements. In the case of the first laminate, the delamination was located at the interface of the layers reinforced with symmetric fabric and unidirectional fabric. In the case of the second laminate, the delamination was located at the interface of layers reinforced with symmetric fabric. In both laminates, the orientation of fibers in the layers separated by the delamination differed by 45° regarding the warp directions. The investigations were carried out for Mode I, Mode II, and Mixed-Mode I/II (GII/GI = 1 and GII/GI = 1.7) loadings using hybrid beam specimens. The major problem appearing in the intended tests was the inevitable lack of symmetry in the xz and xy planes of the specimens and the resulting deformation and stress–strain couplings, causing undesired loading modes. To decrease these couplings, especially designed hybrid beam specimens were used. An auxiliary finite element analysis was performed to assess the remaining effects of the reduced couplings. To ascertain whether statistically significant differences between Gci values for different α occurred, the one-way analysis of variance supplemented by Levene’s test was carried out. The dependence of Gci on α was found out for both laminates. However, it was not equally strong, and it turned out that the loading mode and the interfacial ply were arrangement sensitive.

Research on 5G-Oriented Wireless Sensor Array of Millimeter Hybrid Beam Sensing Terminal

With the rapid development of information technology, facing the problems and new challenges brought by mobile Internet and Internet of things technology, as one of the key technologies of 5G, millimeter-wave mobile communication (28/38/60/70 GHz) which can realize gigabit (GB/s, or even higher) data transmission rate has also attracted extensive attention of wireless researchers all over the world, it has quickly become a research hotspot in the field of wireless communication. In the millimeter-wave massive MIMO downlink wireless sensor system, a block diagonal beamforming algorithm based on the approximate inverse of Neumann series is improved to obtain complete digital beamforming. Then, when designing hybrid beamforming, channel estimation and high-dimensional singular value decomposition are required for traditional analog and digital hybrid beamforming. A low complexity hybrid beamforming scheme is designed. An improved gradient projection algorithm is proposed in the design of analog beamforming, which can solve the problem of high computational complexity and less damage to guarantee and rate. Simulation results show that the hybrid beam terminal of the sensor reduces the number of RF links required for full digital beamforming and is as close to the spectral efficiency performance of full digital beamforming as possible. The results show that the performance of the designed hybrid beamforming scheme can still be close to that of the pure digital beamforming scheme without involving channel estimation and SVD decomposition.

Low Profile Beam Steerable Antenna using PI Axis Posts for Massive-MIMO 5G Applications

5G networks promised to provide increased coverage, capacity and end-user throughput. Advanced antenna radiating system plays a very important role for the establishment of 5G networks. In this work, a novel low size profile enforced terminating boundary patch antenna array is proposed. This antenna array achieves a Hybrid beam steering with a low size through PI axis posts up to 33%. The antenna has a three-layer structure where a single layer PTFE composite based Rogers 5880 is utilized with a dimension of 15× 16 mm2. It operates at frequency band of 35 GHz with a wide bandwidth of 530 MHz and with a mean return loss of -28 dB. This radiating device is designed with the microstrip feed for the massive-MIMO 5G requirements.