Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology

The Korean Society of Marine Engineering (한국마린엔지니어링학회)
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Beam selection method for millimeter-wave-based uplink hybrid beamforming systems

밀리미터파 기반 상향링크 하이브리드 빔포밍 시스템을 위한 빔선택 방법

  • Shin, Joon-Woo (Division of Navigation Science, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
  • Received : 2016.07.04
  • Accepted : 2016.11.24
  • Published : 2016.11.30
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Abstract

Millimeter wave (mm-wave) communication systems provide high data rates owing to the large bandwidths available at mm-wave frequencies. Recently, analogue and digital combined beamforming, namely "hybrid beamforming" has drawn attentions owing to its ability to realize the required link margins in mm-wave systems. Taking into account the radio frequency (RF) hardware limitations, such as the analogue phase shifter gain constraint and the low resolution of the phase controller, we introduce an uplink hybrid beamforming system that includes discrete Fourier transform (DFT) based "fixed" analogue beamforming. We adopt a zero-forcing (ZF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) equalizer to eliminate the uplink inter-user interferences. Moreover, to improve the sum-rate performances, we propose a transmit beam selection algorithm which makes the uplink effective channels, i.e., the beamformed channels, become near orthogonal. The effectiveness of the proposed beam selection algorithm was verified through numerical simulations.

밀리미터파(Millimeter wave) 통신 시스템은 밀리미터파 주파수 대역의 넓은 가용 주파수 자원을 이용해 높은 전송 용량을 제공할 수 있다. 밀리미터파 기반 시스템의 전송선 왜곡 허용치(link margin)를 확보하기 위해 최근 아날로그/디지털 빔포밍(beamforming)을 결합한 하이브리드(hybrid) 빔포밍 기술이 주목받고 있다. 본 논문에서는 무선 주파수 대역의 하드웨어 복잡도와 전력 소비를 절감하기 위해 이산푸리에변환(discrete Fourier transform) 기반 고정형 아날로그 빔포밍 장치를 포함하는 상향링크 하이브리드 빔포밍 시스템 구조를 소개하고, 사용자간 간섭을 제거하기 위해 기저대역 제로-포싱 (zero-forcing) 다중안테나 수신기 구조를 제시한다. 또한 고려하는 시스템의 전송 용량을 개선하기 위해 각 사용자들의 유효 채널이 서로 직교에 가깝도록 빔을 선택하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 그리고 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 방법의 성능 개선 효과를 확인한다.

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