Abstract:
Beamforming is one of the most challenging problems for millimeter wave communication. With limited codebook size, how to design the steering angles to compensate angles ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Beamforming is one of the most challenging problems for millimeter wave communication. With limited codebook size, how to design the steering angles to compensate angles of arrival and departure (AoAs/AoDs) is essential to beamforming performance. Typically, two categories of steering vector sets are commonly used. One is orthogonal steering vector set where the spatial frequency indices of the steering angles are uniformly distributed in spatial frequency domain. The other one is non-orthogonal steering vector set where the steering angles are uniformly distributed in angle domain. In this paper, analyses of these two designs are presented. Due to the fact that beamwidth are constant with respect to different spatial frequency indices in spatial frequency domain, if the spatial frequency indices are uniformly distributed, one has the smallest deviation of the beamforming gain. Since the orthogonal steering vectors satisfy this condition that spatial frequency indices are uniformly distributed, they can achieve higher data rates than the non-orthogonal ones when the AoAs are uniformly distributed over (-π/2, π/2).
Published in: 2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)
Date of Conference: 21-24 June 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 28 July 2016
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