Design and analysis of transmit-beamforming based on limited-rate feedback

  • Authors:
  • Pengfei Xia;G.B. Giannakis

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper deals with design and performance analysis of transmit beamformers for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems based on bandwidth-limited information that is fed back from the receiver to the transmitter. By casting the design of transmit beamforming based on limited-rate feedback as an equivalent sphere vector quantization (SVQ) problem, multiantenna beamformed transmissions through independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels are first considered. The rate-distortion function of the vector source is upper-bounded, and the operational rate-distortion performance achieved by the generalized Lloyd's algorithm is lower-bounded. Although different in nature, the two bounds yield asymptotically equivalent performance analysis results. The average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance is also quantified. Finally, beamformer codebook designs are studied for correlated Rayleigh fading channels, and a low-complexity codebook design that achieves near-optimal performance is derived.