Hybrid Jammer Mitigation for All-Digital mmWave Massive MU-MIMO
Paper in proceeding, 2021

Low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) simplify the design of millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) base-stations, but increase vulnerability to jamming attacks. As a remedy, we propose HERMIT (short for Hybrid jammER MITigation), a method that combines a hardware-friendly adaptive analog transform with a corresponding digital equalizer: The analog transform removes most of the jammer’s energy prior to data conversion; the digital equalizer suppresses jammer residues while detecting the legitimate transmit data. We provide theoretical results that establish the optimal analog transform as a function of the user equipments' and the jammer’s channels. Using simulations with mmWave channel models, we demonstrate the superiority of HERMIT compared both to purely digital jammer mitigation as well as to a recent hybrid method that mitigates jammer interference with a nonadaptive analog transform.

Author

Gian Marti

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Oscar Castañeda

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Christoph Studer

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Sven Jacobsson

Ericsson

Giuseppe Durisi

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Tom Goldstein

University of Maryland

Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers

10586393 (ISSN)

Vol. 2021-October
9781665458283 (ISBN)

Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2021
Virtual, ,

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/IEEECONF53345.2021.9723334

ISBN

9781665458283

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