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Energy-Efficient Design of Broad Beams for Massive MIMO Systems

In this paper, we introduce the concept of array-size invariant (ASI) beamforming, enabling generation of broad beams from very large antenna arrays where all elements are transmitting at maximum power.
Research paper

Massive MIMO antenna systems offer capabilities to utilize channel correlations to create beams suitable for user specific transmissions. Most prior research is devoted to user-specific transmission in such systems, where a narrow beam is formed towards a user to improve its reception. Public-channel transmission to multiple users at once by means of broad beams has been understudied.

The ASI technique offers the possibility to achieve a perfectly flat array factor by exploiting the additional degree of freedom coming from the dual-polarization beamforming. The proposed technique is applicable to both uniform linear and rectangular arrays.

Full abstract in IEEEXplore DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3192245

Authors:

Sven O. Petersson, Maksym A. Girnyk

Published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Volume: 71, Issue: 11, November 2022.

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