Location-Based Millimeter Wave Multi-Level Beamforming Using Compressive Sensing

Abstract

In this letter, a novel millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-level beamforming (BF) is proposed. User positioning is used for roughly defining the area within which the mobile station (MS) is properly located. Based on this, a multi-level beam search is conducted using compressive sensing-based channel estimation to find out the transmit/receive beams for establishing the mmWave link. The estimated MS location-uncertainty area is used to determine the number of beams along with the beamwidth required for constructing the sensing matrix used in each beam searching level. Mathematical and simulation analysis confirm the superiority of the proposed BF scheme over the conventional ones in both BF complexity and performance.