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毫米波透镜天线阵CRAN上行信道估计与数据传输

Uplink Channel Estimation and Data Transmission in Millimeter-Wave CRAN with Lens Antenna Arrays

Reuben George Stephen, Rui Zhang

摘要:

毫米波(mmWave)通信和网络致密化对于在下一代无线网络中实现高速率通信具有很大的希望。云无线接入网(CRAN)是实现网络密集化的一种具有成本效益的解决方案,其中部署了由中央单元(CU)协调的低复杂度远程无线头端(RRH)以分布式方式为用户服务。然而,当在毫米波频率中的大带宽上操作时,CRAN中的数字前传链路将容易被要在RRH和CU之间传送的大量采样和量化信号饱和。为了应对这一挑战,我们在本文中提出了一种新的架构,毫米波为基础的CRAN先进的透镜天线阵列在RRH。由于能量聚焦特性,透镜天线阵列在利用毫米波信道的角度稀疏性方面是有效的,并且因此有助于大幅降低前传速率并简化多天线RRH和CU处的信号处理,即使当信道是频率选择性的时。我们认为在毫米波CRAN与透镜天线阵列的上行链路传输,并提出了一个低复杂度的量化比特分配方案,在每个RRH多个天线,以满足给定的前传速率约束。此外,我们提出了一种信道估计技术,利用透镜阵列的能量聚焦特性,并可以实现在CU具有低复杂度。最后,我们比较了所提出的毫米波CRAN使用透镜天线阵列与传统的CRAN使用均匀的平面阵列在RRH,并表明,所提出的设计实现了显着的吞吐量增益,但复杂性低得多。

英文摘要:

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication and network densification hold great promise for achieving high-rate communication in next-generation wireless networks. Cloud radio access network (CRAN), in which low-complexity remote radio heads (RRHs) coordinated by a central unit (CU) are deployed to serve users in a distributed manner, is a cost-effective solution to achieve network densification. However, when operating over a large bandwidth in the mmWave frequencies, the digital fronthaul links in a CRAN would be easily saturated by the large amount of sampled and quantized signals to be transferred between RRHs and the CU. To tackle this challenge, we propose in this paper a new architecture for mmWave-based CRAN with advanced lens antenna arrays at the RRHs. Due to the energy focusing property, lens antenna arrays are effective in exploiting the angular sparsity of mmWave channels, and thus help in substantially reducing the fronthaul rate and simplifying the signal processing at the multi-antenna RRHs and the CU, even when the channels are frequency-selective. We consider the uplink transmission in a mmWave CRAN with lens antenna arrays and propose a low-complexity quantization bit allocation scheme for multiple antennas at each RRH to meet the given fronthaul rate constraint. Further, we propose a channel estimation technique that exploits the energy focusing property of the lens array and can be implemented at the CU with low complexity. Finally, we compare the proposed mmWave CRAN using lens antenna arrays with a conventional CRAN using uniform planar arrays at the RRHs, and show that the proposed design achieves significant throughput gains, yet with much lower complexity.

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