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Decoupling Beam Steering and User Selection for MU-MIMO 60-GHz WLANs

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Yasaman Ghasempour,

Muhammad Kumail Haider,

Edward W. KnightlyAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Volume 26, Issue 5

Pages 2390 - 2403

https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2018.2866037

Published: 01 October 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Multi-user transmission at 60 GHz promises to increase the throughput of next-generation WLANs via both analog and digital beamforming. To maximize the capacity, analog beams need to be jointly configured with user selection and digital weights; however, joint maximization requires prohibitively large training and feedback overhead. In this paper, we scale multi-user 60-GHz WLAN throughput via design of a low-complexity structure for decoupling beam steering and user selection such that analog beam training precedes user selection. We introduce a two-class framework comprising: 1 single-shot selection of users by minimizing overlap of their idealized beam patterns obtained from analog training and 2 interference-aware incremental addition of users via sequential training to better predict inter-user interference. We implement a programmable testbed using software-defined radios and commercial 60-GHz transceivers and conduct over-the-air measurements to collect channel traces for different indoor WLAN deployments. Measurements are conducted using a 12-element phased antenna array as well as horn antennas with different directivity gains to evaluate the performance of practical 60-GHz systems. Using trace-based emulations and high resolution 60-GHz channel models, we show that our decoupling structure experiences less than 5% performance loss compared with maximum achievable rates via joint user-beam selection.

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