Low-rank Preconditioning in Beamspace Domain For Massive MU-MIMO Long-Term Beamforming

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Main Authors: Kiani, Amirreza, Rasteh, Ali, Mezzavilla, Marco, Rangan, Sundeep
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Published: 2026
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author Kiani, Amirreza
Rasteh, Ali
Mezzavilla, Marco
Rangan, Sundeep
author_facet Kiani, Amirreza
Rasteh, Ali
Mezzavilla, Marco
Rangan, Sundeep
contents Long-term beamforming substantially reduces the channel estimation and inversion overhead of conventional massive MU-MIMO receivers; yet, its construction still hinges on the inversion of a large Hermitian matrix, whose condition number deteriorates with the per-user SNR dynamic range. When this inversion is approximated in hardware via the conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm, the deterioration directly inflates the iteration count and, consequently, the energy and latency budget. We propose a hardware-friendly low-rank preconditioning framework that targets exactly this bottleneck. The preconditioner is constructed from the top eigenpairs of the long-term covariance matrix through a randomized complex eigenvalue decomposition (RC-EVD), whose inner QR factorizations are realized via a Cholesky-based scheme (QRC), confining the dominant cost to generalized matrix multiplication (GEMM) and small triangular solves that map naturally onto systolic arrays. We further show that performing the preconditioned CG inversion in the beamspace domain induces sparsification of the system matrix and provides additional convergence acceleration at negligible transformation cost. Ray-tracing simulations confirm that the joint scheme reduces the required CG iteration count by two to three while matching the post-equalization SINR of the exact inversion.
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spellingShingle Low-rank Preconditioning in Beamspace Domain For Massive MU-MIMO Long-Term Beamforming
Kiani, Amirreza
Rasteh, Ali
Mezzavilla, Marco
Rangan, Sundeep
Signal Processing
Hardware Architecture
Long-term beamforming substantially reduces the channel estimation and inversion overhead of conventional massive MU-MIMO receivers; yet, its construction still hinges on the inversion of a large Hermitian matrix, whose condition number deteriorates with the per-user SNR dynamic range. When this inversion is approximated in hardware via the conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm, the deterioration directly inflates the iteration count and, consequently, the energy and latency budget. We propose a hardware-friendly low-rank preconditioning framework that targets exactly this bottleneck. The preconditioner is constructed from the top eigenpairs of the long-term covariance matrix through a randomized complex eigenvalue decomposition (RC-EVD), whose inner QR factorizations are realized via a Cholesky-based scheme (QRC), confining the dominant cost to generalized matrix multiplication (GEMM) and small triangular solves that map naturally onto systolic arrays. We further show that performing the preconditioned CG inversion in the beamspace domain induces sparsification of the system matrix and provides additional convergence acceleration at negligible transformation cost. Ray-tracing simulations confirm that the joint scheme reduces the required CG iteration count by two to three while matching the post-equalization SINR of the exact inversion.
title Low-rank Preconditioning in Beamspace Domain For Massive MU-MIMO Long-Term Beamforming
topic Signal Processing
Hardware Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02748