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Radio Frequency Chain Reduction for Wireless MIMO Communication Systems Solution Proposed for 5G Deployment

Apr 10, 2020

In recent years, to increase the capacity of wireless communication systems, alleviate the shortage of available spectrum resources, and increase the transmission rate of communication data, the massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO in short) technique equipped with a large number of antenna arrays, as well as the millimeter-wave communication technique using high-frequency spectrum resources, have become important enablers to the fifth generation mobile communications (5G).
The traditional approach, under which one radio frequency (RF) chain is equipped to each antenna, faces huge power consumption and high cost. It is of great significance to study the RF chain reduction technique for millimeter-wave massive MIMO systems to promote the deployment of 5G. However, existing works only consider the use of instantaneous channel state information, leading to extremely high configuration complexity. In addition, previous works are further affected by the quantization accuracy of wireless channels, resulting in a large performance loss.  

Recently, the Industrial Communication and System-on-Chip (iComSoC) Group at Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with the Signal Acquisition, Modeling, Processing and Learning (SAMPL) Lab at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, proposed new theory and algorithm on RF chain reduction for wireless MIMO communication systems, and the researchers built up the hardware prototype. The study was published on IEEE Systems Journal.  

The researchers first configured a hardware network using the second-order statistics of wireless channels, which can significantly reduce the complexity of hardware configuration. Taking channel estimation as the optimization criterion, they derived the optimal solution for fully-connected complex gain hardware networks under noisy conditions.  

Meanwhile, they proposed a high performance iterative alternating optimization algorithm for fully-connected phase shifter hardware networks by exploiting multiple degrees of freedom of optimization variables. 

To realize the relevant theory and algorithm, the researchers then built a hardware prototype, and verified the correctness in the actual environment.  

This study provides an effective solution for the deployment of 5G. 

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GONG Tierui

Shenyang Institute of Automation

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RF Chain Reduction for MIMO Systems: A Hardware Prototype

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