Abstract
Hybrid analog and digital beamforming is a promising technique for large-scale MIMO systems since it can achieve a performance close to the performance of the conventional fully-digital beamforming schemes, but with much lower hardware implementation complexity and power consumption. One of the major challenges in hybrid beamforming is to design the hybrid beamformers for broadband systems with frequency-selective channels. This is because in broadband systems, it is desirable to design the same analog beamformers for the entire band while adapting digital beamformers in each frequency tone. In this paper, we consider the hybrid beamforming design for large-scale MIMO systems with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation. Specifically, we propose a unified heuristic design for two different hybrid beamforming structures, the fully-connected and partially-connected structures, to maximize the overall spectral efficiency of a broadband system. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing hybrid beamforming designs and further the proposed algorithm for the fully-connected structure can achieve spectral efficiency close to that of the optimal fully-digital solution with much less number of RF chains.
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