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In order to improve the efficiency of beamforming for millimeter-wave communications, a codebook is designed and a corresponding beam search algorithm is proposed in this paper. The codebook is designed with a feature of hierarchy, and can be organized into a binary tree, which makes the implementation of binary search possible. Meanwhile, based on the designed codebook, a suboptimal binary search like (BSL) algorithm is proposed for beamforming. Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that, compared with the state-of-the-art search schemes, the proposed scheme dramatically decreases the search time.












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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under grant Nos. 61201189, 91338106, and 61231013, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under grant Nos. YWF-14-DZXY-007, WF-14-DZXY-020 and YMF-14-DZXY-027, National Basic Research Program of China under grant No.2011CB707000, and Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant No. 61221061.
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He, T., Xiao, Z. Suboptimal Beam Search Algorithm and Codebook Design for Millimeter-Wave Communications. Mobile Netw Appl 20, 86–97 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-015-0568-5
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