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Equal gain beamforming (EGB) schemes are typically applied in the baseband domain and hence require complex RF transceivers. In order to simplify the circuitry and energy consumption of the MIMO transceiver, in this paper we consider an EGB scheme that operates in the RF domain by means of analog phase shifters. Under OFDM transmissions, the design of the optimal phases is a complicated nonconvex problem with no closed-form solution. Building upon a previously proposed solution for flat-fading MIMO channels, this paper describes an alternating minimization algorithm to find an approximate (suboptimal) solution for the OFDM case. Monte-Carlo simulations are performed in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of this new analog beamforming scheme under coded and uncoded WLAN 802.11a transmissions.
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Gonzalo, Á., Santamaría, I., Vía, J., Gholam, F., Eickhoff, R. (2010). Equal Gain MIMO Beamforming in the RF Domain for OFDM-WLAN Systems. In: Chatzimisios, P., Verikoukis, C., Santamaría, I., Laddomada, M., Hoffmann, O. (eds) Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. Mobilight 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16644-0_13
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