mmWave Lens-Based MIMO System for Suppressing Small-Scale Fading and Shadowing
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2020
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a generalized millimeter-Wave (mmWave) reconfigurable antenna multiple-input multiple-output (RA-MIMO) architecture that takes advantage of lens antennas. The considered antennas can generate multiple independent beams simultaneously using a single RF chain. This property, together with RA-MIMO, is used to combat small-scale fading and shadowing in mmWave bands. To this end, first, we derive a channel matrix for RA-MIMO. Then, we use rate-one space-time block codes (STBCs), together with phase-shifters at the receive reconfigurable antennas, to suppress the effect of small-scale fading. We consider two kinds of phase shifters: i) ideal which is error-free and ii) digital which adds quantization error. The goal of phase-shifters is to convert a complex-valued channel matrix into real-valued. Hence, it is possible to use rate-one STBCs for any dimension of RA-MIMO. We investigate diversity gain and derive an upper bound for symbol error rate in cases of ideal and digital phase-shifters. We show that RA-MIMO achieves the full-diversity gain with ideal phase-shifters and the full-diversity gain for digital phase-shifters when the number of quantization bits is higher than one. We investigate RA-MIMO in the presence of shadowing. Our analysis demonstrates that, by increasing the dimension of RA-MIMO, the outage probability decreases which means the effect of shadowing decreases. Numerical results verify our theoretical derivations.
Publication Information
Ahmadi Almasi, Mojtaba; Amiri, Roohollah; Jafarkhani, Hamid; and Mehrpouyan, Hani. (2020). "mmWave Lens-Based MIMO System for Suppressing Small-Scale Fading and Shadowing". IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 19(8), 5292-5306. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2020.2991776