Optimal phase control for equal-gain transmission in MIMO systems with scalar quantization: complexity and algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Kin-Kwong Leung;Chi Wan Sung;Majid Khabbazian;Mohammad Ali Safari

  • Affiliations:
  • Cluster Technology, Ltd., Hong Kong;Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The complexity of the optimal phase control problem in wireless MIMO systems with scalar feedback quantization and equal-gain transmission is studied. The problem is shown to be NP-hard when the number of receive antennas grows linearly with the number of transmit antennas. For the case where the number of receive antennas is constant, the problem can be solved in polynomial time. An optimal algorithm is explicitly constructed. For practical purposes, a low-complexity algorithm based on local search is presented. Simulation results show that its performance is nearly optimal.