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电磁透镜聚焦天线实现的大规模MIMO

Electromagnetic Lens-focusing Antenna Enabled Massive MIMO

Yong Zeng, Rui Zhang, Zhi Ning Chen

摘要:

大规模多输入多输出(MIMO)技术近来已经被提出来极大地改善无线网络的性能。然而,使用非常大的天线阵列带来了新的问题,例如显著增加的硬件成本和信号处理成本和复杂性。为了获得大规模MIMO的巨大增益,同时将其成本降低到可承受的水平,本文提出了一种新的系统设计,通过将电磁(EM)透镜与大型天线阵列集成,称为\emph{electromagnetic lens antenna}(ELA)。ELA具有将通过EM透镜的任何入射平面波的功率聚焦到天线阵列的一个小子集的能力,而聚焦区域的位置取决于波的到达角(AoA)。与没有EM透镜的传统天线阵列相比,所提出的系统可以大大减少接收器处所需的射频(RF)链的数量,从而减少实现成本。在本文中,我们研究了一个简化的单用户上行链路传输设置下,所提出的系统,通过表征的ELA的功率分布以及由此产生的信道模型。此外,通过假设在接收器处使用的天线选择,我们示出了在给定相同数量的选定天线的情况下,所提出的系统相对于传统天线阵列的吞吐量增益。

英文摘要:

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques have been recently advanced to tremendously improve the performance of wireless networks. However, the use of very large antenna arrays brings new issues, such as the significantly increased hardware cost and signal processing cost and complexity. In order to reap the enormous gain of massive MIMO and yet reduce its cost to an affordable level, this paper proposes a novel system design by integrating an electromagnetic (EM) lens with the large antenna array, termed \emph{electromagnetic lens antenna} (ELA). An ELA has the capability of focusing the power of any incident plane wave passing through the EM lens to a small subset of the antenna array, while the location of focal area is dependent on the angle of arrival (AoA) of the wave. As compared to conventional antenna arrays without the EM lens, the proposed system can substantially reduce the number of required radio frequency (RF) chains at the receiver and hence, the implementation costs. In this paper, we investigate the proposed system under a simplified single-user uplink transmission setup, by characterizing the power distribution of the ELA as well as the resulting channel model. Furthermore, by assuming antenna selection used at the receiver, we show the throughput gains of the proposed system over conventional antenna arrays given the same number of selected antennas.

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