Downlink beamforming avoiding DOA estimation for cellular mobile communications

Author

Asté, T. ; Forster, P. ; Féty, L. ; Mayrargue, S.

Author_Institution

Lab. Electron. & Commun., CNAM, Paris, France

Volume

6

fYear

1998

fDate

12-15 May 1998

Firstpage

3313

Abstract

A new technique to overcome the induced difficulties of FDD (frequency division duplex) for the design of a forward link beamformer in cellular mobile communications systems is presented. It takes advantage of the array topology at the basestation, used to transpose second order statistics of the propagation channel from the uplink frequency to the downlink frequency, thus enabling one to optimize directly any beamforming criterion based on these statistics at the downlink frequency, without feedback nor DOA (direction of arrival) estimation. It can be applied whatever the criterion used to design the beamformer. The effectiveness is verified by the mean of simulation results

Keywords

array signal processing; cellular radio; land mobile radio; radio links; statistical analysis; FDD; array topology; basestation; cellular mobile communications; circular arrays; downlink beamforming; downlink frequency; frequency division duplex; propagation channel; second order statistics; simulation results; uplink frequency; Array signal processing; Base stations; Direction of arrival estimation; Downlink; Feedback; Frequency estimation; Mobile communication; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Topology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4428-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.1998.679573

Filename

679573