TY - JOUR
T1 - Beam Management for Millimeter-Wave Beamspace MU-MIMO
AU - Xue, Qing
AU - Fang , X
AU - Xiao , M
AU - Mumtaz, Shahid
AU - Rodriguez, Jonathan
PY - 2018/8/28
Y1 - 2018/8/28
N2 - Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication has attracted increasing attention as a promising technology for 5G networks. One of the key architectural features of mm-wave is the possibility of using large antenna arrays at both the transmitter and receiver sides. Therefore, by employing directional beamforming, both mm-wave base stations (MBSs) and mm-wave user equipments(MUEs)are capable of supporting multi-beam simultaneous transmissions. However, most of the existing research results have only considered a single beam. Thus, the potentials of mm-wave have not been fully exploited yet. In this context, in order to improve the performance of short-range indoor mm-wave networks with multiple reflections, we investigate the challenges and potential solutions of downlink multi-user multi-beam transmission, which can be described as a beamspace multi-user multiple-input multipleoutput (MU-MIMO) technique. We first exploit the characteristic of MBS/MUEs supporting multiple beams simultaneously to improve the efficiency of multi-user BF training. Then, we analyze the inter-user interference to avoid beam selection conflicts. Furthermore, we propose blockage control strategies and multiuser multi-beam power allocation solutions for the beamspace MU-MIMO. The theoretical and numerical results demonstrate that the beamspace MU-MIMO compared with single beam transmission can largely improve the rate performance and robustness of mm-wave networks.
AB - Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication has attracted increasing attention as a promising technology for 5G networks. One of the key architectural features of mm-wave is the possibility of using large antenna arrays at both the transmitter and receiver sides. Therefore, by employing directional beamforming, both mm-wave base stations (MBSs) and mm-wave user equipments(MUEs)are capable of supporting multi-beam simultaneous transmissions. However, most of the existing research results have only considered a single beam. Thus, the potentials of mm-wave have not been fully exploited yet. In this context, in order to improve the performance of short-range indoor mm-wave networks with multiple reflections, we investigate the challenges and potential solutions of downlink multi-user multi-beam transmission, which can be described as a beamspace multi-user multiple-input multipleoutput (MU-MIMO) technique. We first exploit the characteristic of MBS/MUEs supporting multiple beams simultaneously to improve the efficiency of multi-user BF training. Then, we analyze the inter-user interference to avoid beam selection conflicts. Furthermore, we propose blockage control strategies and multiuser multi-beam power allocation solutions for the beamspace MU-MIMO. The theoretical and numerical results demonstrate that the beamspace MU-MIMO compared with single beam transmission can largely improve the rate performance and robustness of mm-wave networks.
U2 - 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2867487
DO - 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2867487
M3 - Article
SN - 0090-6778
VL - 67
SP - 205
EP - 217
JO - IEEE Transactions on Communications
JF - IEEE Transactions on Communications
IS - 1
ER -