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Wideband hybrid analog-digital beamforming massive MIMO systems based on Rotman lens

IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), 2016 • 2016
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Authors Y. Gao, M. Khaliel, and T. Kaiser
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Journal IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), 2016
Publisher IEEE
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Pages 6
publication.type International
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Abstract
Hybrid analog-digital beamforming is a well-known cost-efficient signal processing method for massive MIMO systems. In this paper, we propose a hybrid beamforming massive MIMO system based on Rotman lens analog beamforming with beam selection and digital beamforming. Rotman lens is a true-time delay analog beamforming network supporting wide bandwidth signals, which is thus more attractive than the analog beamforming networks based on traditional narrow-band phase shifters. Hence, the performance of the proposed system is investigated and verified experimentally. In particular, we design and fabricate a sample of Rotman lens operating in 5 GHz band, whose measured performance agrees well with the computer simulation. To optimize our hybrid beamforming system in terms of error-rate performance, a low-complexity greedy beam selection algorithm is proposed. Our measurement and simulation results on the error-rate performance show that the hybrid beamforming system based on Rotman lens has a wide bandwidth and exhibits superior performance over the small-scale MIMO system under the same number of RF transceivers.