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Hybrid beamforming design for mmWave OFDM distributed antenna systems

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This paper presents a hybrid beamforming design for millimeter-wave (mmWave) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) distributed antenna systems (DASs). First, we derive a downlink signal transmission model that considers the delay spread differences (DSDs) caused by the distributed nature of the network. We then propose a cooperative wideband hybrid beamforming method under the transmitting power constraints of each remote access unit. In a simulation study, the proposed method performed comparably to fully-digital beamforming, even when operated with practical finite-resolution phase shifters. We further confirm that the DSDs are the dominant cause of performance degradation in mmWave OFDM DASs.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by National Key Research and Development Program (Grant No. 2018YFE0205902), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant Nos. 61871122, 61971127), and Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province.

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  1. National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Yu Zhang, Dongming Wang & Xiaohu You

  2. Purple Mountain Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211111, China

    Dongming Wang & Xiaohu You

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, V8P 5C2, Canada

    Yiming Huo & Xiaodai Dong

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Zhang, Y., Wang, D., Huo, Y. et al. Hybrid beamforming design for mmWave OFDM distributed antenna systems. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 63, 192301 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-019-2799-y

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