Beamspace MIMO for Millimeter-Wave Communications: System Architecture, Modeling, Analysis, and Measurements

By John Brady, Nader Behdad, Akbar M. Sayeed. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2013

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems (2015, background): “Though signal processing approaches like cognitive radio [20], [21] free more spectrum, it still is not enough if gigabit-per-second data rates are required.”
Deep Learning-Based Channel Estimation for Beamspace mmWave Massive MIMO Systems (2018, background): “In [2], the beamspace channel model and the lens antenna array-based architecture have been proposed to reduce the number of RF chains.”
Alternating Minimization Algorithms for Hybrid Precoding in Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems (2016, methodology): “This algorithm requires the columns of analog precoding matrix to be picked from certain candidate vectors, such as array response vectors of the channel [13], [21], [22], and discrete Fourier transform beamformers [23], [24].”
Millimeter-wave massive MIMO: the next wireless revolution? (2014, neutral): “One such approach based on the use of a discrete lens array (DLA) was recently constructed and experimentally analyzed in [14].”
Prospective Multiple Antenna Technologies for Beyond 5G (2019, methodology): “A CAP-MIMO demonstrator at 10 GHz was ﬁrst presented in [109] and later extended to multibeam operation at 28 GHz in [110], [134].”
Spectrum and Energy-Efficient Beamspace MIMO-NOMA for Millimeter-Wave Communications Using Lens Antenna Array (2017, methodology): “In addition to ordersof-magnitude lager bandwidths, the smaller wavelengths at mmWave allow more antennas in a same physical space, which enables massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) to provide more multiplexing gain and beamforming gain [2]–[8].”
Millimeter Wave MIMO With Lens Antenna Array: A New Path Division Multiplexing Paradigm (2015, methodology): “In [27], the concept of beamspace MIMO communication is introduced, where the lens antenna arrays are used to approximately transform the signals in antenna space to beamspace, which has much lower dimensions, to signiﬁcantly reduce the number of RF chains required.”
Millimeter Wave Communication: A Comprehensive Survey (2018, background): “Based on the theoretical foundations of [54], Brady et al. [55] study and address the problems about modeling, design, and analysis of the physically realizable CAP-MIMO system in detail.”
Beamspace MIMO for high-dimensional multiuser communication at millimeter-wave frequencies (2013, methodology): “g via a discrete lens array fed by an array of beamspace antennas as in Continuous Aperture Phased MIMO (CAP-MIMO) [6], [7], [17] or via phase shifting networks in conventional antenna arrays [5], [18], a significant reduction in hardware complexity can be achieved as well.”
A Comprehensive Survey on Millimeter Wave Communications for Fifth-Generation Wireless Networks: Feasibility and Challenges (2020, background): “Since the general design principle of hybrid analog-digital precoding is to approximate the full-digital precoder, many works in literature [2], [6], [24], [141], [270]–[272] have proposed hybrid precoding designs that can achieve the optimal full-digital precoding performance.”
Hybrid MIMO Architectures for Millimeter Wave Communications: Phase Shifters or Switches? (2015, background): “Analog and hybrid MIMO architectures proposed so far for mmWave communications are usually based on phased arrays, though there is some work on alternative lens based architectures [30].”
A Survey on Hybrid Beamforming Techniques in 5G: Architecture and System Model Perspectives (2018, methodology): “Reference [148] combines the beamspace MIMO and hybrid analog-digital transceiver to form continuous aperture phased (CAP) MIMO to achieve near optimal performance.”
Position and Orientation Estimation Through Millimeter-Wave MIMO in 5G Systems (2017, methodology): “The first stage of the technique harnes ses sparsity of the mm-wave channel in the AOA and AOD domain [10], [11].”
Limited Feedback Hybrid Precoding for Multi-User Millimeter Wave Systems (2014, methodology): “in more detail in Section III. The total power constraint is enforced by normalizing F BB such that kF RFF BBk2 F = U. For simplicity, we adopt a narrowband block-fading channel model as in [4], [5], [14], [21] in which the uth MS observes the received signal as r u= H u XU n=1 F RFf BB n s n+ n u; ”
Spatially Sparse Precoding in Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems (2013, methodology): “For simplicity, we consider a narrowband block-fading propagation channel as in [10], [25], [32], [34], which yields a received signal”
Evolution of NOMA Toward Next Generation Multiple Access (NGMA) for 6G (2021, methodology): “To overcome this issue, a beamspace MIMO technique was proposed, where the MIMO channel is transformed into sparse beamspace channels via lens antenna arrays to reduce the required number of radio frequency (RF) chains [61].”
Multibeam 3-D-Printed Luneburg Lens Fed by Magnetoelectric Dipole Antennas for Millimeter-Wave MIMO Applications (2019, background): “Rest portions of the communication system including the RF chains and digital circuits can be integrated into the area behind the antennas as indicated in [4] and [5].”
A Survey on Millimeter-Wave Beamforming Enabled UAV Communications and Networking (2021, background): “Another alternative architecture is lens antenna array [79], where a number of antennas are mounted behind a lens to transmit/receive signals to/from different directions.”