Millimeter-wave beamforming as an enabling technology for 5G cellular communications: theoretical feasibility and prototype results

By Wonil Roh, J. Seol, Jeongho Park, Byunghwan Lee, Jaekon Lee, Yungsoo Kim, Jaeweon Cho, K. Cheun, F. Aryanfar. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2014

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Millimeter Wave Communication: A Comprehensive Survey (2018, background): “Thanks to the rapid progress in complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits [4], [5], beamforming based on large-scale mmWave antenna arrays has been widely exploited to extend the coverage of mmWave networks [6], [7].”
Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks: A MAC Layer Perspective (2015, methodology): “Considering 28 GHz mmWave communications, for instance, the coverage is typically of the order of 10 to 20 m, even though some experiments conﬁrm a coverage of 1.7 km in outdoor LoS conditions [8].”
IEEE 802.11ad-Based Radar: An Approach to Joint Vehicular Communication-Radar System (2017, methodology): “X/RX antenna arrays at the source and the recipient vehicles because it will allow high-resolution beamforming in the azimuth and elevation directions and is used in mmWave communications (see, e.g., [30]) and automotive radars [31]. This will enable a large beamforming gain, mitigate inter-user int”
Digital Beamforming-Based Massive MIMO Transceiver for 5G Millimeter-Wave Communications (2018, methodology): “ture based on analog phased subarray have been reported in [3]”
Small-Size Tapered Slot Antenna (TSA) Design for use in 5G Phased Array Applications (2017, background): “22 GHz, 28 GHz, and 38 GHz are some of the candidate bands for 5G wireless communications [4-5].”
A survey of millimeter wave communications (mmWave) for 5G: opportunities and challenges (2015, background): “To obtain the beneﬁts of MIMO and also provide high beamforming gain to overcome high propagation loss in mmWave bands, the hybrid beam-forming structure has been proposed as an enabling technology for 5G cellular communications [117].”
A 28-GHz Low-Power Phased-Array Receiver Front-End With 360° RTPS Phase Shift Range (2017, background): “In recent years, there has been increasing interest in mm-wave networks for the next-generation wireless networks (5G) beyond 4G LTE with system-level measurements and demonstrations at 28 GHz [4], [9], [10].”
A Survey on Hybrid Beamforming Techniques in 5G: Architecture and System Model Perspectives (2018, background): “fits of MIMO and also to provide high beamforming gain to overcome the high propagation loss in mmWave bands, for 5G cellular communications [57].”
A Comprehensive Survey on Millimeter Wave Communications for Fifth-Generation Wireless Networks: Feasibility and Challenges (2020, background): “Enabling the added spectra of future mmWave cellular systems, higher data rates, improved connectivity, and higher system capacity can be realized compared to legacy sub-6 GHz cellular bands [18], [72], [83]–[85].”
Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Communication for Future Wireless Systems: A Survey (2018, background): “Examples are the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) [181] and Samsung’s [182] prototypes.”
Energy-Efficient Hybrid Analog and Digital Precoding for MmWave MIMO Systems With Large Antenna Arrays (2015, methodology): “In this paper, we adopt the geometric Saleh-Valenzuela channel model to embody the low rank and spatial correlation characteristics of mmWave communications [10]–[13], [15]–[17], [25] as”
A 28-GHz 32-Element TRX Phased-Array IC With Concurrent Dual-Polarized Operation and Orthogonal Phase and Gain Control for 5G Communications (2017, background): “The use of phased arrays at millimeter-wave frequencies offers a path to support multiple users with high data rates by establishing high-bandwidth directional links between the base station and mobile devices [2], [3].”
A Survey on Mobile Augmented Reality With 5G Mobile Edge Computing: Architectures, Applications, and Technical Aspects (2021, background): “Beamforming technology, combined with massive MIMO focuses on transmitting the signals from the transmit antennas in different desired directions to overcome the unfavourable path loss, guaranteeing the data rate to the user [111].”
Machine Learning for 5G/B5G Mobile and Wireless Communications: Potential, Limitations, and Future Directions (2019, background): “There has been also a strong expectation regarding the antenna technology design for the mmWave and above bands [156]–[158].”
Low-Complexity Hybrid Precoding in Massive Multiuser MIMO Systems (2014, methodology): “To capture this poor scattering nature, in the simulation, we adopt a geometric channel model [8]–[10]”
Proposal on Millimeter-Wave Channel Modeling for 5G Cellular System (2016, background): “It enables the use of more spectrum [3]–[6] to support greater data traffic for various multimedia services, such as broadband mobile and backhaul services.”
5G: A Tutorial Overview of Standards, Trials, Challenges, Deployment, and Practice (2017, methodology): “…combination of massive MIMO and mm-wave is also driving a change of focus of signal processing methods towards low complexity techniques with limited hardware, operating over potentially sparse, 3D channels with an increasing emphasis on TDD [17], [87], [88], [92], [99], [100], [102], [105], [109].”
Millimeter Wave MIMO With Lens Antenna Array: A New Path Division Multiplexing Paradigm (2015, background): “…feasible to pack a large number of antennas with reasonable form factors at both the transmitter and receiver, whereby efﬁcient MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) beamforming techniques can be applied to achieve highly directional communication to compensate for the severe path loss [10]–[13].”