Genetic Algorithm-Based Beam Refinement for Initial Access in Millimeter Wave Mobile Networks
Journal article, 2018

Initial access (IA) is identified as a key challenge for the upcoming 5G mobile communication system operating at high carrier frequencies, and several techniques are currently being proposed. In this paper, we extend our previously proposed efficient genetic algorithm-(GA-) based beam refinement scheme to include beamforming at both the transmitter and the receiver and compare the performance with alternative approaches in the millimeter wave multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) networks. Taking the millimeter wave communications characteristics and various metrics into account, we investigate the effect of different parameters such as the number of transmit antennas/users/per-user receive antennas, beamforming resolutions, and hardware impairments on the system performance employing different beam refinement algorithms. As shown, our proposed GA-based approach performs well in delay-constrained networks with multiantenna users. Compared to the considered state-of-the-art schemes, our method reaches the highest service outage-constrained end-to-end throughput with considerably less implementation complexity. Moreover, taking the users' mobility into account, our GA-based approach can remarkably reduce the beam refinement delay at low/moderate speeds when the spatial correlation is taken into account. Finally, we compare the cases of collaborative users and noncollaborative users and evaluate their difference in system performance.

Author

Hao Guo

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Behrooz Makki

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Tommy Svensson

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

1530-8669 (ISSN) 1530-8677 (eISSN)

Vol. 2018 5817120

Fifth Generation Communication Automotive Research and innovation (5GCAR)

European Commission (EC) (EC/H2020/761510), 2017-06-01 -- 2019-05-31.

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1155/2018/5817120

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