MmWave MIMO Hybrid Precoding Design Using Phase Shifters and Switches

To reduce the number of phase shifters for analog precoding in millimeter wave massive multiple-input multiple-output communications, we investigate the hybrid use of expensive phase shifters and low-cost switches. Different from the existing fixed phase shifter (FPS) architecture where the phases a...

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Published in2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) pp. 01 - 06
Main Authors Liu, Qiang, Qi, Chenhao, Yu, Xianghao, Li, Geoffrey Ye
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2021
Subjects
Alternating minimization
Hardware
hybrid precoding
Massive MIMO
Matrix converters
millimeter wave (mmWave) communications
Phase shifters
Precoding
Simulation
Spectral efficiency
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DOI10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685324

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Summary:To reduce the number of phase shifters for analog precoding in millimeter wave massive multiple-input multiple-output communications, we investigate the hybrid use of expensive phase shifters and low-cost switches. Different from the existing fixed phase shifter (FPS) architecture where the phases are fixed and independent of the channel state information, we consider variable phase shifter (VPS) whose phases are variable and subject to the hardware constraint. Based on the VPS architecture, a hybrid precoding design (HPD) scheme named VPS-HPD is proposed to optimize the phases according to the channel state information. Specifically, we alternately optimize the analog precoder and the digital precoder, where the former is converted into several subproblems and each subproblem further includes the alternating optimization of the phase matrix and switch matrix. Simulation results show that the spectral efficiency of the VPS-HPD scheme is very close to that of the fully digital precoding, higher than that of the existing MO-AltMin scheme for the fully-connected architecture with much fewer phase shifters, and substantially higher than that of the existing FPS-AltMin scheme for the FPS architecture with the same number of phase shifters.
DOI:10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685324