Complementary beamforming: New approaches

Yang-Seok Choi

doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2005.861674

Complementary beamforming: New approaches

2006-01-01

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DOI：10.1109/TCOMM.2005.861674

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Smart antenna technology can greatly improve the coverage radius of wireless systems by focusing the transmitted signal (beam) toward desired users. However, beamforming has an important side effect as it creates a region, herein referred to as the complementary region, where some users in the network cannot sense the directional signals (beams). We have referred to this as the hidden beam problem in Throkh et al.. From a physical layer perspective, beamforming reduces cochannel interference (CCI). However, in systems that use medium access-control techniques such as the carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA) protocol in wireless local area networks, during a busy period of the channel, the users in the complementary region may wrongly decide that the medium is idle and transmit packets. This may cause CCI, unnecessary retransmissions, subsequent backoff, and increased network latency. We introduced the concept of complementary beamforming (CBF) to address this issue in Tarokh et al.. In this paper, we propose two new methods, called subspace complementary beamforming (SCBF) and complementary superposition beamforming (CSBF). The SCBF uses dummy data to ensure a controlled level of received energy in all directions of eigenvectors unused by downlink beamforming. The technique works in multipath fading channels. The approach achieves similar results to those reported in Tarokh et al.. However, it enables the second technique (CSBF) which can also send data content in the complementary beam. This allows passive nodes in the network to receive broadcast information, while the active nodes are engaged in the exchange of user-specific data. It is shown that CBF effects can be achieved simply by increasing the transmit power of only one of antenna elements when space-division multiple access is not applied. Simulations are provided in order to quantify overall network performance improvements when using CBF, confirming significant throughput and delay performance enhancements.

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carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA)

complementary beamforming (CBF)

random-access channel

space-division multiple access (SDMA)

smart antenna

wireless local area network (WLAN)

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