Hybrid Analog-Digital Channel Estimation and Beamforming: Training-Throughput Tradeoff

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5235-5249

  Bogale, Tadilo Endeshaw ^a   Le, Long Bao ^a   Wang, Xianbin ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hybrid beamforming; Hybrid channel estimation; Massive MIMO; Millimeter wave; RF chain

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CHAINS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COVARIANCE MATRIX; DIGITAL RADIO; FADING CHANNELS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIMO SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; THROUGHPUT;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE; GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; HYBRID BEAMFORMING; MASSIVE MULTIPLE-INPUT- MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEM (MIMO); MINIMUM MEAN SQUARED ERROR; RADIO FREQUENCY CHAINS; TRAINING THROUGHPUTS;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

EID: 84961843528     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2495191     Document Type: Article

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