Reconfigurable Power Divider-Enabled Dynamic Hybrid m-MIMO Transmitter

A promising solution for massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (m-MIMO) systems is Hybrid digital-analogue (HDA) beamforming as it offers a balanced trade-off between energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE). The lack of practical demonstrations in the open literature is primarily becaus...

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Main Authors: Kai Xu, Jiayu Hou, Li Wang, Simona Sibio, John S. Thompson, Stephen McLaughlin, Yuan Ding, Gunnar Peters
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Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
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description A promising solution for massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (m-MIMO) systems is Hybrid digital-analogue (HDA) beamforming as it offers a balanced trade-off between energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE). The lack of practical demonstrations in the open literature is primarily because those most existing works require a large number of phase shifters (PSs), radio frequency (RF) switches, power dividers (PDs), and power combiners which contribute to high hardware complexity and energy consumption (due to insertion loss). In this paper, we introduce a practical dynamic subarray m-MIMO structure that is based on reconfigurable power dividers (RPDs). The extensive system simulation results, considering hardware imperfection extracted from a practical RPD implementation, indicate that the proposed RPD-based dynamic HDA m-MIMO outperforms the fixed subarray counterpart.
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spelling doaj-art-07b19b8f298641fcba2e68f9647f50202025-08-20T02:30:31ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society2644-125X2022-01-0132461247110.1109/OJCOMS.2022.32262629971725Reconfigurable Power Divider-Enabled Dynamic Hybrid m-MIMO TransmitterKai Xu0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7761-8050Jiayu Hou1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1203-7663Li Wang2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3365-2403Simona Sibio3John S. Thompson4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4605-9708Stephen McLaughlin5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9558-8294Yuan Ding6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5953-3800Gunnar Peters7School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh, U.KSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh, U.KResearch and Development Center, Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Stockholm, SwedenSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh, U.KInstitute for Digital Communication, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.KSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh, U.KSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh, U.KResearch and Development Center, Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Stockholm, SwedenA promising solution for massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (m-MIMO) systems is Hybrid digital-analogue (HDA) beamforming as it offers a balanced trade-off between energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE). The lack of practical demonstrations in the open literature is primarily because those most existing works require a large number of phase shifters (PSs), radio frequency (RF) switches, power dividers (PDs), and power combiners which contribute to high hardware complexity and energy consumption (due to insertion loss). In this paper, we introduce a practical dynamic subarray m-MIMO structure that is based on reconfigurable power dividers (RPDs). The extensive system simulation results, considering hardware imperfection extracted from a practical RPD implementation, indicate that the proposed RPD-based dynamic HDA m-MIMO outperforms the fixed subarray counterpart.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9971725/Hybrid digital-analog beamformingdynamic subarrayreconfigurable power dividers
spellingShingle Kai Xu
Jiayu Hou
Li Wang
Simona Sibio
John S. Thompson
Stephen McLaughlin
Yuan Ding
Gunnar Peters
Reconfigurable Power Divider-Enabled Dynamic Hybrid m-MIMO Transmitter
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
Hybrid digital-analog beamforming
dynamic subarray
reconfigurable power dividers
title Reconfigurable Power Divider-Enabled Dynamic Hybrid m-MIMO Transmitter
title_full Reconfigurable Power Divider-Enabled Dynamic Hybrid m-MIMO Transmitter
title_fullStr Reconfigurable Power Divider-Enabled Dynamic Hybrid m-MIMO Transmitter
title_full_unstemmed Reconfigurable Power Divider-Enabled Dynamic Hybrid m-MIMO Transmitter
title_short Reconfigurable Power Divider-Enabled Dynamic Hybrid m-MIMO Transmitter
title_sort reconfigurable power divider enabled dynamic hybrid m mimo transmitter
topic Hybrid digital-analog beamforming
dynamic subarray
reconfigurable power dividers
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9971725/
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