Downlink beamforming for energy-efficient heterogeneous networks with massive MIMO and small cells

LD Nguyen, HD Tuan, TQ Duong… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
beamforming design at the base stations to optimize the network EE under the QoS constraints
and a transmit power budget. Beamforming … structure of the massive MIMO channel from …

Robust downlink beamforming for BDMA massive MIMO system

F Zhu, F Gao, S Jin, H Lin, M Yao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… robust downlink beamforming against the imperfect channel state information (CSI) for beam
division multiple access (BDMA) massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMObeamforming

Joint optimization of hybrid beamforming for multi-user massive MIMO downlink

Z Li, S Han, S Sangodoyin, R Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… • We investigate the design of hybrid beamformers at both link ends for multiuser massive
MIMO systems. For the analog beamformer based on second order statistics, we show that …

Beamforming techniques for massive MIMO systems in 5G: overview, classification, and trends for future research

E Ali, M Ismail, R Nordin, NF Abdulah - Frontiers of Information …, 2017 - Springer
… of beamforming techniques can be deployed for massive MIMO systems according to 5G
requirements. Thus, this paper is focused on beamforming … effects on massive MIMO systems to …

Statistical beamforming for FDD massive MIMO downlink systems

C Zhang, Z Lu, Y Huang, J Zhang… - 2015 IEEE/CIC …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… However, for massive MIMO systems, the influence of … served simultaneously through downlink
beamforming, which we … -user downlink systems [9] to multiuser massive MIMO systems. …

Multi-layer beamforming in uplink/downlink massive MIMO systems with multi-antenna users

F Rezaei, A Tadaion - Signal Processing, 2019 - Elsevier
… For the downlink transmission, we also design the hybrid beamformer at the BS and digital
… In such a configuration, in order to design the hybrid beamformer, the digital precoders and …

Two-stage beamformer design for massive MIMO downlink by trace quotient formulation

D Kim, G Lee, Y Sung - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We consider a single-cell massive MIMO downlink system in which a base station with a
uniform linear array (ULA) of M transmit antennas serves K single-antenna users. We assume …

Massive MU-MIMO downlink TDD systems with linear precoding and downlink pilots

HQ Ngo, EG Larsson… - 2013 51st Annual Allerton …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… how to efficiently acquire CSI at each user in the massive MU-MIMO downlink. In this paper,
we propose a beamforming training scheme to acquire estimates of the CSI at each user. …

Statistical beamforming for FDD downlink massive MIMO via spatial information extraction and beam selection

H Liu, X Yuan, YJ Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… channels, where the uplink training is used to help improving the downlink channel … interested
in the downlink beamforming design for FDD massive MIMO without downlink training. We …

Hybrid beamforming for massive MIMO: A survey

AF Molisch, VV Ratnam, S Han, Z Li… - IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… AVERAGE CSI BASED HYBRID BEAMFORMING A major challenge for the beamformers
ing gain (SMG) of massive MIMO downlinks with fully digital structure equals M(1 – M/T), where …