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access icon free Efficient antenna allocation algorithms in millimetre wave wireless communications

  • Author(s): Chao Li 1 ; Shibo He 1 ; Zhiguo Shi 2 ; Jiming Chen 1
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  • Source: Volume 12, Issue 5, 20 March 2018, p. 543 – 551
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-com.2017.0399 , Print ISSN 1751-8628, Online ISSN 1751-8636
© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 31/05/2017, Accepted 18/10/2017, Revised 16/09/2017, Published 02/11/2017

Recently, a considerable research interest has grown up in the millimetre wave wireless system as the most promising technologies in the next generation communication. Since high-frequency channels of the millimetre wave are easily attenuated in space, beamforming technology relying on the massive multi-input-multi-output system is introduced to transmit the millimetre wave in a very narrow directional beam, so as to greatly improve the transmit efficiency. Then a challenging problem lies in that how to optimise the overall throughput by allocating the antenna resources to different mobile users in the massive MIMO antenna system. In this study, the authors handle such a difficult problem in two different cases. They first begin with the one-direction case, i.e. all sub-arrays are deployed in several parallel rows along the edge of a rectangle antenna array. They decompose the problem and solve it gradually. Then they generalise the authors' result to the two-dimensional case, where the sub-arrays can be deployed in orthogonal directions. They apply the similar scheme, decompose the problem and solve each sub-problem progressively. Both NP-hard problems are solved with time efficient approximation algorithms. Simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithms in different cases.

Inspec keywords: millimetre wave communication; wireless channels; millimetre wave antenna arrays; resource allocation; MIMO communication; approximation theory; next generation networks; optimisation; array signal processing

Other keywords: beamforming technology; rectangle antenna array; throughput optimisation; one-direction case; millimetre wave wireless system; two-dimensional case; time efficient approximation algorithms; next generation communication; mobile users; millimetre wave wireless communication; NP-hard problems; high-frequency channels; massive multiinput multioutput system; massive MIMO antenna system; orthogonal directions; antenna resource allocation algorithm

Subjects: Antenna arrays; Optimisation techniques; Radio links and equipment; Signal processing and detection; Interpolation and function approximation (numerical analysis)

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