Finite-Resolution Digital Beamforming for Multi-User Millimeter-Wave Networks

Nasir, AA; Tuan, HD; Dutkiewicz, E; Hanzo, L

Finite-Resolution Digital Beamforming for Multi-User Millimeter-Wave Networks

Nasir, AA Tuan, HD Dutkiewicz, E

Hanzo, L

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Publisher:: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022, 71, (9), pp. 9647-9662
Issue Date:: 2022-09-01

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dc.contributor.author	Nasir, AA
dc.contributor.author	Tuan, HD
dc.contributor.author	Dutkiewicz, E https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4268-9286
dc.contributor.author	Hanzo, L
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-11T03:08:00Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-11T03:08:00Z
dc.date.issued	2022-09-01
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022, 71, (9), pp. 9647-9662
dc.identifier.issn	0018-9545
dc.identifier.issn	1939-9359
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/169526
dc.description.abstract	Recent studies have shown that low-resolution analog-to-digital-converters and digital-to-analog-converters (ADCs and DACs) can make fully-digital beamforming more power efficient than its analog or hybrid beamforming counterpart over wide-band millimeter-wave (mmWave) channels. Inspired by this, we propose a computationally efficient fully-digital beamformer relying on low-resolution ADCs/DACs for multi-user mmWave communication networks. Both a generalized (unstructured) beamformer (GB) and a structured zero-forcing beamformer (ZFB) are proposed. For maintaining fairness among all users in the network, specifically tailored objective functions are considered under sum-power constraints, namely that of maximizing the geometric mean (GM) of users' rate and their max-min rate. These computationally challenging beamforming design problems are tackled by developing computationally efficient steep ascent algorithms, which have the radical benefit of relying on a closed-form solution at each iteration. Moreover, to facilitate the employment of low-cost amplifiers at each antenna, the GB design problem subject to the equal-gain transmission constraint is considered, which assigns equal transmit power to each transmit antenna. The proposed algorithms promise a user-rate distribution having a reduced deviation among the user-rates, i.e., improved rate-fairness. Our extensive simulation results show an approximately upto 45% reduction for the GM-rate of a 2-bit ADC (4-bin quantization) compared to the $\infty$-resolution ADC.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102501
dc.relation.ispartof	IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/TVT.2022.3180786
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	08 Information and Computing Sciences, 09 Engineering, 10 Technology
dc.subject.classification	Automobile Design & Engineering
dc.title	Finite-Resolution Digital Beamforming for Multi-User Millimeter-Wave Networks
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	71
utslib.for	08 Information and Computing Sciences
utslib.for	09 Engineering
utslib.for	10 Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - GBDTC - Global Big Data Technologies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Electrical and Data Engineering
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dc.date.updated	2023-04-11T03:07:59Z
pubs.issue	9
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utslib.citation.issue	9

Abstract:

Recent studies have shown that low-resolution analog-to-digital-converters and digital-to-analog-converters (ADCs and DACs) can make fully-digital beamforming more power efficient than its analog or hybrid beamforming counterpart over wide-band millimeter-wave (mmWave) channels. Inspired by this, we propose a computationally efficient fully-digital beamformer relying on low-resolution ADCs/DACs for multi-user mmWave communication networks. Both a generalized (unstructured) beamformer (GB) and a structured zero-forcing beamformer (ZFB) are proposed. For maintaining fairness among all users in the network, specifically tailored objective functions are considered under sum-power constraints, namely that of maximizing the geometric mean (GM) of users' rate and their max-min rate. These computationally challenging beamforming design problems are tackled by developing computationally efficient steep ascent algorithms, which have the radical benefit of relying on a closed-form solution at each iteration. Moreover, to facilitate the employment of low-cost amplifiers at each antenna, the GB design problem subject to the equal-gain transmission constraint is considered, which assigns equal transmit power to each transmit antenna. The proposed algorithms promise a user-rate distribution having a reduced deviation among the user-rates, i.e., improved rate-fairness. Our extensive simulation results show an approximately upto 45% reduction for the GM-rate of a 2-bit ADC (4-bin quantization) compared to the $\infty$-resolution ADC.

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