2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper IDSPCOM-3.5
Paper Title ANALOG BEAMFORMING WITH ANTENNA SELECTION FOR LARGE-SCALE ANTENNA ARRAYS
Authors Aakash Arora, Christos Tsinos, Bhavani Shankar Mysore R., Symeon Chatzinotas, Bjorn Ottersten, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
SessionSPCOM-3: Beamforming 2
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Thursday, 10 June, 15:30 - 16:15
Presentation Time:Thursday, 10 June, 15:30 - 16:15
Presentation Poster
Topic Signal Processing for Communications and Networking: [SPC-SPARCO] Sparse SP techniques for communication
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Abstract In large-scale antenna array (LSAA) wireless communication systems employing analog beamforming architectures, the placement or selection of a subset of antennas can significantly reduce the power consumption and hardware complexity. In this work, we propose a joint design of analog beamforming with antenna selection (AS) or antenna placement (AP) for an analog beamforming system. We approach this problem from a beampattern matching perspective and formulate a sparse unit-modulus least-squares (SULS) problem, which is a nonconvex problem due to the unit-modulus and the sparsity constraints. To that end, we propose an efficient and scalable algorithm based on the majorization-minimization (MM) framework for solving the SULS problem. We show that the sequence of iterates generated by the algorithm converges to a stationary point of the problem. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed joint design of analog beamforming with AS outperforms conventional array architectures with fixed inter-antenna element spacing.