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Low-Complexity Beam Allocation for Switched-Beam Based Multiuser Massive MIMO Systems

Wang, Junyuan, Zhu, Huiling, Dai, Lin, Gomes, Nathan J., Wang, Jiangzhou (2016) Low-Complexity Beam Allocation for Switched-Beam Based Multiuser Massive MIMO Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 15 (12). pp. 8236-8248. ISSN 1536-1276. (doi:10.1109/TWC.2016.2613517) (KAR id:57638)

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Abstract

This paper addresses the beam allocation problem in a switched-beam based massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system working at the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band, with the target of maximizing the sum data rate. This beam allocation problem can be formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem under two constraints that each user uses at most one beam for its data transmission and each beam serves at most one user. The brute-force search is a straightforward method to solve this optimization problem. However, for a massive MIMO system with a large number of beams N, the brute-force search results in intractable complexity O(NK), where K is the number of users. In this paper, in order to solve the beam allocation problem with affordable complexity, a suboptimal low-complexity beam allocation (LBA) algorithm is developed based on submodular optimization theory, which has been shown to be a powerful tool for solving combinatorial optimization problems. Simulation results show that our proposed LBA algorithm achieves nearly optimal sum data rate with complexity O(K logN). Furthermore, the average service ratio, i.e., the ratio of the number of users being served to the total number of users, is theoretically analyzed and derived as an explicit function of the ratio N=K.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/TWC.2016.2613517
Uncontrolled keywords: massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO), Switched-beam based systems, beam allocation algorithm, sum data rate, submodular optimization, service ratio
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Tina Thompson
Date Deposited: 03 Oct 2016 09:01 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2021 13:37 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/57638 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Wang, Junyuan: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1838-8336
Gomes, Nathan J.: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3763-3699
Wang, Jiangzhou: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0881-3594
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