Title
Phase-Only Transmit Beamforming for Spectrum Sharing Microwave Systems
Abstract
This paper deals with the problem of phase-only transmit beamforming in spectrum sharing microwave systems. In contrast to sub-6 GHz schemes, general microwave systems require a large number of antennas due to its huge path loss. As a consequence, digital beamforming needs a large number of computational resources compared to analog beamforming, which only needs a single radio-frequency chain, results the less computational demanding solution. Analog schemes are usually composed by a phase shifter network whose elements transmit at a certain fixed power so that the system designer shall compute the phase values for each element given a set of directions. This approach leads to non-convex quadratic problems where the traditional semidefinite relaxation fails to deliver satisfactory outcomes. In order to solve this, we propose a nonsmooth method that behaves well in several scenarios. Numerical evaluations in different spectrum sharing scenarios, which show the performance of our method, are provided.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
WSA 2016; 20th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas
Microwave,Beamforming,Quadratic equation,Electronic engineering,Path loss,Phase shift module,Engineering,Spectrum sharing
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-3-8007-4177-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Miguel Ángel Vázquez15710.21
Luis Blanco2225.38
Ana I. Pérez-Neira340152.50
miguel angel lagunas451.19