Performance Analysis of Digital Beamforming mmWave MIMO with Low-Resolution DACs/ADCs
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| author | Pasic, Faruk Mussbah, Mariam Schwarz, Stefan Rupp, Markus Tufvesson, Fredrik Mecklenbräuker, Christoph F. |
| author_facet | Pasic, Faruk Mussbah, Mariam Schwarz, Stefan Rupp, Markus Tufvesson, Fredrik Mecklenbräuker, Christoph F. |
| contents | Future wireless communications will rely on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beamforming operating at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands to deliver high data rates. To support flexible spatial processing and meet the demands of latency critical applications, it is essential to use fully digital mmWave MIMO beamforming, which relies on accurate channel estimation. However, ensuring power efficiency in fully digital mmWave MIMO systems requires the use of low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The reduced resolution of these quantizers introduces distortion in both transmitted and received signals, ultimately degrading system performance. In this paper, we investigate the channel estimation performance of mmWave MIMO systems employing fully digital beamforming with low-resolution quantization, under practical system constraints. We evaluate the system performance in terms of spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Simulation results demonstrate that a moderate quantization resolutions of 4-bit per DAC/ADC offers a favorable trade-off between energy consumption and achievable data rate. |
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| spellingShingle | Performance Analysis of Digital Beamforming mmWave MIMO with Low-Resolution DACs/ADCs Pasic, Faruk Mussbah, Mariam Schwarz, Stefan Rupp, Markus Tufvesson, Fredrik Mecklenbräuker, Christoph F. Signal Processing Future wireless communications will rely on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) beamforming operating at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands to deliver high data rates. To support flexible spatial processing and meet the demands of latency critical applications, it is essential to use fully digital mmWave MIMO beamforming, which relies on accurate channel estimation. However, ensuring power efficiency in fully digital mmWave MIMO systems requires the use of low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The reduced resolution of these quantizers introduces distortion in both transmitted and received signals, ultimately degrading system performance. In this paper, we investigate the channel estimation performance of mmWave MIMO systems employing fully digital beamforming with low-resolution quantization, under practical system constraints. We evaluate the system performance in terms of spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Simulation results demonstrate that a moderate quantization resolutions of 4-bit per DAC/ADC offers a favorable trade-off between energy consumption and achievable data rate. |
| title | Performance Analysis of Digital Beamforming mmWave MIMO with Low-Resolution DACs/ADCs |
| topic | Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15831 |