An mmWave Hybrid Beamforming for Steady High-Speed Railway Communications
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Yiru Liu, Bo Ai, Yong NiuAuthors Info & Claims
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Abstract
In order to meet the demand for higher transmission rates of the future high-speed railway (HSR) wireless communication systems, millimeter wave (mmWave) communication and large-scale antenna arrays (LSAs) become promising technologies. By utilizing hybrid analog and digital beamforming architecture, the base station (BS) equipped with a LSA can form multiple narrow beams to transmit data streams to multiple mobile relays (MRs) equipped with antenna arrays. Usually, when the train is close to BS, the angular resolution between MRs is high. However, due to the straight shape of the track, the channels between different MRs are becoming highly correlated and multi-user interference can be detrimental to the multi-MRs performance when the train is far from the BS. Therefore, in this paper, we decouple the analog and digital domains of the hybrid BF. First, analog BF beams and a predefined codebook were designed considering the geometry of the straight-line shape track in the HSR scenario. Second, an adaptive analog BF selection is adopted to form appropriate beams when the train is far away from BS. Then mutual interference eliminating between MRs can be realized by digital precoding. The numerical results indicate that the proposed scheme can effectively solve the significant performance degradation of the multi-MR system during the train crossing the cell.
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