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Reduced Feedback Beamforming with a Large Antenna Array in Wireless Backhaul Downlink Systems

거대 배열 안테나 무선 백홀 하향 링크 시스템에서 피드백 량을 줄이기 위한 빔 형성 방법

  • Park, Jaebum (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kwon, Girim (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Park, Hyuncheol (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2016.08.31
  • Accepted : 2016.11.03
  • Published : 2016.12.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose 2-stage beamformer with linear receiver in wireless backhaul downlink system where macro base station has large antenna array with sub-array structure. Also, to compare the system capacity, we apply 3-stage beamformer with zero-forcing precoder and calculate the achievable sum rate of received small cell base stations. Considering scattering and path-loss property of wireless backhaul channel, we combine precoding technique for spatial multiplexing and beamforming technique to overcome path-loss. Therefore, we design DFT-based fixed beam patterns for the first stage. The simulation results show that considering spatial multiplexing, proposed 2-stage beamformer with linear receiver can increase the achievable sum rate as well as reduce the feedback information.

본 논문은 광역 셀 기지국이 sub-array 구조의 거대 배열 안테나를 가지고 있는 무선 백홀 하향 링크 시스템에서 두 단계 빔 형성 및 수신 빔 형성 기법을 제안하였다. 또한, 시스템 성능 비교를 위해, 제로 포싱 프리코더(zero-forcing precoder)를 이용한 세 단계 빔 형성 기법을 적용하여 수신 소형 셀 기지국들의 전송률 성능을 계산하였다. 무선 백홀 채널의 채널 산란 및 거리감쇄 특성 등을 고려할 때 공간 다중화를 위한 프리코딩 기술뿐만 아니라 거리감쇄를 극복하기 위한 지향성 빔 형성 기술이 접목되어야 한다. 따라서 첫 번째 단계에서는 DFT(discrete-Fourier transform) 기반의 고정 빔 패턴을 설계하였다. 결과적으로, 피드백 량을 줄이면서 동시에 전송률 성능을 높이기 위해서는 제안한 두 단계 빔 형성 및 수신 빔 형성 기법을 선택하는 것이 공간 다중화를 고려할 때 유리하다는 것을 확인하였다.

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