[en] Hybrid processing in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication has been proposed as a solution to reduce the cost and energy consumption by reducing the number of radio-frequency (RF) chains. However, the impact of the inevitable residual transceiver hardware impairments (RTHIs), including the residual additive transceiver hardware impairments (RATHIs) and the amplified thermal noise (ATN), has not been sufficiently studied in mmWave hybrid processing. In this work, the hybrid precoder and combiner are designed, which include both digital and analog processing by taking into account the RATHIs and the ATN. In particular, a thorough study is provided to shed light on the degradation of the spectral efficiency (SE) of the practical system. The outcomes show the steady degradation of the performance by the ATN across all SNR values, which becomes increasingly critical for higher values of its variance. Furthermore, it is shown that RATHIs result in degradation of the system only in the high SNR regime. Hence, their impact in mmWave system operating at low SNRs might be negligible. Moreover, an increase concerning the number of streams differentiates the impact between the transmit and receive RATHIs with the latter having a more severe effect.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
Papazafeiropoulos, Anastasios K
Papageorgiou, Georgios K
Kolawole, Oluwatayo Y
Kourtessis, Pandelis
CHATZINOTAS, Symeon ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SigCom
Senior, John M.
Sellathurai, Mathini
Ratnarajah, Tharmalingam
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Towards the assessment of realistic hybrid precoding in millimeter wave MIMO systems with hardware impairments
Publication date :
April 2021
Journal title :
IET Communications
ISSN :
1751-8628
eISSN :
1751-8636
Publisher :
Institution of Engineering and Technology, United Kingdom