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School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China;
moreAffiliation(s): School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China; National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China;
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Ying WANG, Chenhao QI. Analog-only beamforming for near-fieldmultiuserMIMO communications[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering,in press.https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.2400433
@article{title="Analog-only beamforming for near-fieldmultiuserMIMO communications", author="Ying WANG, Chenhao QI", journal="Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering", year="in press", publisher="Zhejiang University Press & Springer", doi="https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.2400433" }
%0 Journal Article %T Analog-only beamforming for near-fieldmultiuserMIMO communications %A Ying WANG %A Chenhao QI %J Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering %P %@ 2095-9184 %D in press %I Zhejiang University Press & Springer doi="https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.2400433"
TY - JOUR T1 - Analog-only beamforming for near-fieldmultiuserMIMO communications A1 - Ying WANG A1 - Chenhao QI J0 - Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering SP - EP - %@ 2095-9184 Y1 - in press PB - Zhejiang University Press & Springer ER - doi="https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.2400433"
Abstract: For the existing near-field multiuser communications based on hybrid beamforming (HBF) architectures, high-quality effective channel estimation is required to obtain the channel state information (CSI) for the design of the digital beamformer. To simplify the system reconfiguration and eliminate the pilot overhead required by the effective channel estimation, we considered an analog-only beamforming (AoBF) architecture in this study. The AoBF is designed with the aim of maximizing the sum rate, which is then transformed into a problem, maximizing the power transmitted to the target user equipment (UE) and meanwhile minimizing the power leaked to the other UEs. To solve this problem, we used beam focusing and beam nulling and proposed two AoBF schemes based on the majorization-minimization (MM) algorithm. First, the AoBF scheme based on perfect CSI is proposed, with the focus on the beamforming performance and regardless of the CSI acquisition. Then, the AoBF scheme based on imperfect CSI is proposed, where the low-dimensional imperfect CSI is obtained by beam sweeping based on a near-field codebook. Simulation results demonstrate that the two AoBF schemes can approach the sum rate of the HBF schemes but outperform HBF schemes in terms of energy efficiency (EE).
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