In this article, beam learning based on position information (PI) about mobile station positions in the initial access (IA) of millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) cellular networks is investigated. The existing PI-based IA procedure cannot efficiently tackle the position inaccuracy and blockage or may cause a long IA delay because of the inefficient beam learning. Based on the sparse scattering of mmWave signals, the serving area is partitioned into smaller areas and the beams are learned for each small area. Moreover, the number of learned beams is restricted and fixed after learning. Thus, the impact of position inaccuracy and blockage can be mostly mitigated and the IA delay is short in each successful IA. The analysis shows the lower bound of the probability of miss detection. Additionally, the simulation results show that the proposed approach can achieve a reasonable IA delay and superior IA performance than other PI-based approaches.
We propose a low-complexity transmission strategy in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output downlink systems. The adaptive strategy adjusts the precoding methods, denoted as the transmission mode, to improve the system sum rates while maintaining the number of simultaneously served users. Three linear precoding transmission modes are discussed, i.e., the block diagonalization zero-forcing, the cooperative zero-forcing (CZF), and the cooperative matched-filter (CMF). Considering both the number of data streams and the multiple-antenna configuration of users, we modify the common CZF and CMF modes by allocating data streams. Then, the transmission mode is selected between the modified ones according to the asymptotic sum rate analyses. As instantaneous channel state information is not needed for the mode selection, the computational complexity is significantly reduced. Numerical simulations confirm our analyses and demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves substantial performance gains with very low computational complexity.
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