Beam Squint Reduction by Combining Phased Subarrays With True Time Delays in Baseband

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftKurzartikel (Letter) / Leserbrief mit OriginaldatenBeigetragenBegutachtung

Abstract

The phenomenon of beam squinting is one of the challenges for wideband mobile communications systems. Although purely digital arrays could resolve this problem utilizing true-time delays (TTDs), they are too expensive w.r.t. power consumption and hardware complexity. Instead, in this letter, we propose a novel codebook-based hardware efficient beamforming architecture that combines subarrays using phase shifters at radio-frequency (RF) with only a few TTDs realized digitally in baseband. The proposed architecture is capable of counteracting the beam squint induced performance loss more strongly with an increasing number of subarrays. Thus, it can approximate the narrowband assumption with different degrees of accuracy and provides an efficient trade-off between complexity and performance.

Titel in Übersetzung
Reduzierung des Schielens von Strahlen durch die Kombination von phasengesteuerten Subarrays mit echten Zeitverzögerungen im Basisband

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)1159-1163
Seitenumfang5
FachzeitschriftIEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Jahrgang14
Ausgabenummer4
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 30 Jan. 2025
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

Scopus 105002488585
ORCID /0000-0002-1680-6581/work/194258072

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Beam squint, true-time delay, wideband communication