4.7 Article

Optimum Downlink Beamwidth Estimation in mmWave Communications

Journal

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 69, Issue 1, Pages 544-557

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2020.3025356

Keywords

Millimeter-wave communication; analog beamforming; scheduling; optimal beamwidth; localization error

Funding

  1. DST [INT/Korea/P-46, 4-23/5G-test-bed/2017-NT]

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This paper addresses the issue of serving multiple users over a single highly-directed beam in millimeter-wave communications. By using exhaustive search and variable time scheduling, the optimal beamwidth is optimized to improve user rate and base station energy efficiency. The effect of localization error on beamwidth estimation is minimal but can degrade user Quality-of-Service.
With increasing density of data-hungry devices per unit area, allocating single highly-directed beam per user in millimeter-wave communications is not practical. Therefore, the requirement is to serve multiple users over a single beam. Considering a single-cell scenario with a fixed number of users, this paper addresses the problem of selection of optimal beamwidth depending on user density and distribution. First, by considering fixed beam service time in each sector, optimal beamwidth is estimated using exhaustive search for average long-run user rate and base station energy efficiency maximization. Based on the results of the average long-run user rate maximization using an exhaustive search, another method of reduced complexity is proposed to find sub-optimal beamwidth. Subsequently, optimum beamwidth is estimated with user density dependent variable time scheduling in a sector, that offers improved performances over fixed time scheduling. An efficient algorithm on variable time scheduling is also provided. Finally, the effect of localization error on optimal beamwidth estimation is investigated. The numerical results show that using the narrowest beam does not necessarily result in achieving a better average long-run user rate. Further, localization error does not affect the selection of optimal beamwidth, however, user Quality-of-Service degrades.

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