Title
Low Complexity Hybrid Precoding Strategies for Millimeter Wave Communication Systems.
Abstract
Millimeter communication systems use large antenna arrays to provide good average received power and to take advantage of multi-stream MIMO communication. Unfortunately, due to power consumption in the analog front-end, it is impractical to perform beamforming and fully digital precoding at baseband. Hybrid precoding/combining architectures have been proposed to overcome this limitation. The hybrid structure splits the MIMO processing between the digital and analog domains, while keeping the performance close to that of the fully digital solution. In this paper, we introduce and analyze several algorithms that efficiently design hybrid precoders and combiners starting from the known optimum digital precoder/combiner, which can be computed when perfect channel state information is available. We propose several low complexity solutions which provide different trade-offs between performance and complexity. We show that the proposed iterative solutions perform better in terms of spectral efficiency and/or are faster than previous methods in the literature. All of them provide designs which perform close to the known optimal digital solution. Finally, we study the effects of quantizing the analog component of the hybrid design and show that even with coarse quantization, the average rate performance is good.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TWC.2016.2614495
IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Radio frequency,Antenna arrays,MIMO,Precoding,Millimeter wave communication,Algorithm design and analysis,Receiving antennas
Beamforming,Baseband,Telecommunications,Communications system,MIMO,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Spectral efficiency,Quantization (signal processing),Mathematics,Precoding,Channel state information
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
12
1536-1276
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.49
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristian Rusu139945.44
Roi Méndez-Rial22238.57
Nuria González Prelcic3111455.80
Robert W. Heath414415885.64