Robust hybrid beamforming with phased antenna arrays for downlink SDMA in indoor 60 GHz channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4542-4557

  Wu, Sau Hsuan ^a   Chiu, Lin Kai ^a   Lin, Ko Yen ^b   Chang, Tsung Hui ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Scientific and Technical Research Center Ministry of Justice   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

60 GHz radio; adaptive antenna arrays; robust downlink beamforming; SDMA and MU MIMO

Indexed keywords

60-GHZ RADIO; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DOWNLINK BEAM-FORMING; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; MU-MIMO; SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE-PLUS-NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA STREAMING;

ADAPTIVE ANTENNA ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 84884905511     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.072313.121749     Document Type: Article

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