On the Number of RF Chains and Phase Shifters, and Scheduling Design With Hybrid Analog-Digital Beamforming

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3311-3326

  Bogale, Tadilo Endeshaw ^a   Le, Long Bao ^a   Haghighat, Afshin ^b   Vandendorpe, Luc ^c  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b INTERDIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hybrid analog digital beamforming; massive MIMO; millimeter wave; phase shifter; RF chain

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; DIGITAL RADIO; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIMO SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFTERS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; DIGITALLY CONTROLLED; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE CHANNEL; MASSIVE MULTIPLE-INPUT- MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEM (MIMO); PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; RADIO FREQUENCY CHAINS; THEORETICAL EXPRESSION; TRANSMITTER ANTENNAS;

FREQUENCY SELECTIVE FADING;

EID: 84969813040     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: 15582248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2016.2519883     Document Type: Article

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