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mmWave Lens-Based MIMO System for Suppressing Small-Scale Fading and Shadowing
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi, Boise State University
  • Roohollah Amiri, Boise State University
  • Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California at Irvine
  • Hani Mehrpouyan, Boise State University
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Article
Publication Date
8-1-2020
Abstract

In this paper, we propose a generalized millimeter-Wave (mmWave) reconfigurable antenna multiple-input multiple-output (RA-MIMO) architecture that takes advantage of lens antennas. The considered antennas can generate multiple independent beams simultaneously using a single RF chain. This property, together with RA-MIMO, is used to combat small-scale fading and shadowing in mmWave bands. To this end, first, we derive a channel matrix for RA-MIMO. Then, we use rate-one space-time block codes (STBCs), together with phase-shifters at the receive reconfigurable antennas, to suppress the effect of small-scale fading. We consider two kinds of phase shifters: i) ideal which is error-free and ii) digital which adds quantization error. The goal of phase-shifters is to convert a complex-valued channel matrix into real-valued. Hence, it is possible to use rate-one STBCs for any dimension of RA-MIMO. We investigate diversity gain and derive an upper bound for symbol error rate in cases of ideal and digital phase-shifters. We show that RA-MIMO achieves the full-diversity gain with ideal phase-shifters and the full-diversity gain for digital phase-shifters when the number of quantization bits is higher than one. We investigate RA-MIMO in the presence of shadowing. Our analysis demonstrates that, by increasing the dimension of RA-MIMO, the outage probability decreases which means the effect of shadowing decreases. Numerical results verify our theoretical derivations.

Citation Information
Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi, Roohollah Amiri, Hamid Jafarkhani and Hani Mehrpouyan. "mmWave Lens-Based MIMO System for Suppressing Small-Scale Fading and Shadowing" IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2020)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hani_mehrpouyan/92/