Adaptive digital precoder codebook resolution for millimeter wave hybrid beamforming

Hybrid analog-digital beamforming has emerged as an important technique to enable millimeter wave (mmWave) communications in 5G radio access networks. With a two-stage hybrid beamforming procedure, where analog and digital precoders are determined separately and sequentially, the benefits attributed...

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Published in:2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors: Kuo, Ping-Heng, Ahn, Jaehyun, Mourad, Alain
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.10.2017
Subjects:
Antenna arrays
Array signal processing
Base stations
Measurement
MIMO communication
Precoding
Radio frequency
ISBN:1538635291, 9781538635292
ISSN:2166-9589
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Summary:Hybrid analog-digital beamforming has emerged as an important technique to enable millimeter wave (mmWave) communications in 5G radio access networks. With a two-stage hybrid beamforming procedure, where analog and digital precoders are determined separately and sequentially, the benefits attributed to digital precoding on top of analog beams could be quite marginal in some cases, as sparse propagation paths in a mmWave channel could be well captured by analog beams alone. By exploiting such characteristic, this paper proposes a digital precoder codebook resolution adaptation scheme, wherein a user device is able to determine the digital precoder resolution based on the gain in addition to analog beamforming, in order to reduce feedback overhead without significant performance degradation.
ISBN:1538635291
9781538635292
ISSN:2166-9589
DOI:10.1109/PIMRC.2017.8292401