Enhanced Unitary Beamforming Scheme for Limited-Feedback Multiuser MIMO Systems

Abstract

In this letter, we consider practical downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems where each user has multiple antennas and codebook-based limited channel feedback is available at base station. We propose a preprocessing scheme for downlink transmission where a unitary beamforming matrix is used. Firstly, we propose how to construct the unitary matrix that maximizes sum rate. Secondly, we propose a codebook-based channel feedback method for the proposed beamforming method. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme outperforms conventional zero-forcing beamforming scheme in terms of sum rate.