Tracking angles of departure and arrival in a mobile millimeter wave channel

Chuang Zhang, Dongning Guo, Pingyi Fan

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Abstract

Millimeter wave provides a promising approach for meeting the ever-growing traffic demand in next generation wireless networks. It is crucial to obtain the channel state information in order to perform beamforming and combining to compensate for severe path loss in this band. In contrast to lower frequencies, a typical millimeter wave channel consists of a few dominant paths. Thus it is generally sufficient to estimate the path gains, angles of departure (AoDs), and angles of arrival (AoAs) of those paths. Proposed in this paper is a dual timescale model to characterize abrupt channel changes (e.g., blockage) and slow variations of AoDs and AoAs. This work focuses on tracking the slow variations and detecting abrupt changes. A Kalman filter based tracking algorithm and an abrupt change detection method are proposed. The tracking algorithm is compared with the adaptive algorithm due to Alkhateeb, Ayach, Leus and Heath (2014) in the case with a single radio frequency chain. Simulation results show that to achieve the same tracking performance, the proposed algorithm requires much lower signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and much fewer pilots than the other algorithm. Moreover, the change detection method can always detect abrupt changes with moderate number of pilots and SNR.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479966646
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 12 2016
Event2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: May 22 2016May 27 2016

Publication series

Name2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016

Other

Other2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period5/22/165/27/16

Funding

This work was partly supported by the China Major State Basic Research Development Program (973 Program) No. 2012CB316100(2), National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 61201203. The work of D. Guo was supported in part by a gift from Futurewei Technologies and by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ECCS-1231828.

Keywords

  • Kalman filter
  • Millimeter wave
  • change detection
  • tracking

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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