Joint design of digital and analog processing for downlink C-RAN with large-scale antenna arrays

J Kim, SH Park, O Simeone, I Lee… - 2017 IEEE 18th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2017 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Signal Processing …, 2017ieeexplore.ieee.org
In millimeter-wave communication systems with large-scale antenna arrays, conventional
digital beamforming may not be cost-effective. A promising solution is the implementation of
hybrid beamforming techniques, which consist of low-dimensional digital beamforming
followed by analog radio frequency (RF) beamforming. This work studies the optimization of
hybrid beamforming in the context of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architecture. In
a C-RAN system, digital baseband signal processing functionalities are migrated from …
In millimeter-wave communication systems with large-scale antenna arrays, conventional digital beamforming may not be cost-effective. A promising solution is the implementation of hybrid beamforming techniques, which consist of low-dimensional digital beamforming followed by analog radio frequency (RF) beamforming. This work studies the optimization of hybrid beamforming in the context of a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) architecture. In a C-RAN system, digital baseband signal processing functionalities are migrated from remote radio heads (RRHs) to a baseband processing unit (BBU) in the “cloud” by means of finite-capacity fronthaul links. Specifically, this work tackles the problem of jointly optimizing digital beamforming and fronthaul quantization strategies at the BBU, as well as RF beamforming at the RRHs, with the goal of maximizing the weighted downlink sum-rate. Fronthaul capacity and per-RRH power constraints are enforced along with constant modulus constraints on the RF beamforming matrices. An iterative algorithm is proposed that is based on successive convex approximation and on the relaxation of the constant modulus constraint. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is validated by numerical simulation results.
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