Analysis of SIR-Based Downlink Beamforming
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- BOCHE Holger
- the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut fur Nachrichtentechnik Berlin GmbH
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- SCHUBERT Martin
- the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut fur Nachrichtentechnik Berlin GmbH
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Abstract
Transmit heamforming is a promising way to increase the downlink capacity of wireless networks. Since all nsers are coupled via their radiation patterns the beamforming vectors must he optimized along with power control. It is necessary to balance the signal-to-interference levels according to individual QoS requirements. This probiem leads back to the minimization of the infinity-norm of a certain vector and has first been studied by Gerlach and Paulraj in [1]. It has been assumed that the optimum solution can he obtained by minimizing the 1-norm instead, thereby leading to a new problem, which is generally easier to handle. The analytical and numerical results in this paper however, indicate that this conjecture is generally not valid. We characterize the case where the 1-norm solution also solves the infinity-norm problem. In particular, it is shown that for the special case of a 2-user scenario, both optimization problems are indeed equivalent and a closed-form solution can be given. The analytical results provide new insights into the problem of coupled downlink beamforming and offer a useful approach to the design of efficient and reliable algorithms.
Journal
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- IEICE transactions on communications
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IEICE transactions on communications 85 (6), 1160-1168, 2002-06-01
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
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Details
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- CRID
- 1572824502326051712
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- NII Article ID
- 110003219444
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- NII Book ID
- AA10826261
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- ISSN
- 09168516
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- CiNii Articles