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Beamspace Equalization for mmWave Massive MIMO: Algorithms and VLSI Implementations

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Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan
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Christoph Studer
DOI:10.1109/tcsi.2026.3682139delete
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Massive multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication are key physical layer technologies in future wireless systems. Their deployment, however, is expected to incur excessive baseband processing hardware cost and power consumption. Beamspace processing leverages the channel sparsity at mmWave frequencies to reduce baseband processing complexity. In this paper, we review existing beamspace data detection algorithms and propose new algorithms as well as corresponding VLSI architectures that reduce data detection power consumption. We present VLSI implementation results for the proposed architectures in a 22 nm FDSOI process. Our results demonstrate that a fully-parallelized implementation of the proposed complex sparsity-adaptive equalizer (CSPADE) achieves up to 54% power savings compared to antenna-domain equalization. Furthermore, our fully-parallelized designs achieve the highest reported throughput among existing massive MIMO data detectors, while achieving better energy and area efficiency. We also present a sequential multiply-accumulate (MAC)-based architecture for CSPADE, which enables even higher power savings, i.e., up to 66%, compared to a MAC-based antenna-domain equalizer.
Keywords:
Beamspace
data detection
equalization
massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
millimeter-wave (mmWave)
low-power
VLSI implementation

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IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers cover
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers
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