Joint Recursive Beam and Channel Tracking for 2-dimensional Phased Antenna Arrays

04/16/2018
by   Yu Liu, et al.
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Millimeter wave (mmWave) is an attractive candidate for high-speed wireless communication in the future. However, due to the propagation characteristics of mmWave, beam alignment becomes a key challenge in mobile environments. In this paper, we develop a joint 3D recursive beam and channel tracking algorithm that can achieve low tracking error. We discuss the special challenges in optimazing the beamforming matrix of 3D tracking. A general asymptotically optimal beamforming matrix is given to obtain the minimum Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) of beam and channel tracking. The beamforming matrix can be used in different channel environments when antenna number is large enough. In static scenarios, three theorems are developed to prove that the algorithm converges to the minimum CRLB. Simulation results show that our algorithm outperforms several existing algorithms.

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