Angle-of-arrival based beamforming for FDD massive MIMO

Xing Zhang, John Tadrous, Evan Everett, Feng Xue, Ashutosh Sabharwal

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Abstract

A key challenge in FDD massive MIMO is the large overhead in CSI acquisition for closed-loop MIMO transmission. In this paper, we propose two novel types of angle-of-arrival (AoA) based beamforming schemes that harness the reciprocity of dominant AoA. Both schemes require CSI acquisition overhead that only scales with the number of served mobiles, not the number of base-station antennas. We analyze the performance of the proposed schemes both analytically and numerically. We show that both our proposed schemes lead to sum throughput that scales with the number of base-station antennas, and hybrid beamforming performs close to ideal zero-forcing beamforming.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationConference Record of the 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2015
EditorsMichael B. Matthews
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages704-708
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467385763
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 26 2016
Event49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2015 - Pacific Grove, United States
Duration: Nov 8 2015Nov 11 2015

Publication series

NameConference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
Volume2016-February
ISSN (Print)1058-6393

Other

Other49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPacific Grove
Period11/8/1511/11/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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