Title
REEL-BF Design: Achieving the SDP Bound for Downlink Beamforming With Arbitrary Shaping Constraints.
Abstract
This paper considers the beamforming design for a multiuser multiple-input single-output downlink with an arbitrary number of (context specific) shaping constraints. In this setup, the state-of-the-art beamforming schemes cannot attain the well known performance bound promised by the semidefinite program (SDP) relaxation technique. To close the gap, we propose a redundant-signal embedded linear beamforming (REEL-BF) scheme, where each user is assigned with one information beamformer and several shaping beamformers. It is shown that the proposed REEL-BF scheme can perform general rank-$K$ beamforming for user symbols in a low-complexity and structured manner. In addition, sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee that the REEL-BF scheme always achieves the SDP bound for linear beamforming schemes. Based on such conditions, an efficient algorithm is then developed to obtain the optimal REEL-BF solution in polynomial time. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed scheme enjoys substantial performance gains over the existing alternatives.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TSP.2017.2673811
IEEE Trans. Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Array signal processing,Signal to noise ratio,Interference,Downlink,Mobile communication,Information science,Cognitive radio
WSDMA,Beamforming,Mathematical optimization,Signal-to-noise ratio,Relaxation technique,Interference (wave propagation),Time complexity,Mathematics,Cognitive radio,Telecommunications link
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
65
10
1053-587X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
21
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Feng Wang161.15
Chongbin Xu2235.10
Yongwei Huang381450.83
Xin Wang41169111.70
Xiqi Gao53043217.05