Robust downlink beamforming based on outage probability specifications

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3498-3503

  Chalise, Batu K ^a,b   Shahbazpanahi, Shahram ^c   Czylwik, Andreas ^a   Gershman, Alex B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convex optimization; Outage probability; Robust downlink beamforming

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BLOCKING PROBABILITY; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; ROBUST DOWNLINK BEAMFORMING; ROBUST TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 35448956017     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.06041     Document Type: Article

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