Hybrid Beamforming in MU-MIMO Using Partial Interfering Beam Feedback

We propose a hybrid beamforming scheme with partial interfering beam feedback for a codebook-based multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system, where users feed back information only about the top-p transmit beams. For the analog part of the precoding, we consider two codebooks, the conventional Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) codebook with uniform amplitude beamforming vectors and the Taylor codebook with non-uniform amplitude beamforming vectors. For the digital precoding part, the effective channel matrix is approximated and used for zero-forcing (ZF). We also propose a beam pairing algorithm that results in reduced inter-beam interference and simplifies beam and user selection in MU-MIMO. When p is equal to the number of beams in the transmit codebook, the proposed scheme includes an existing scheme with full effective channel matrix feedback as a special case. Numerical results show that the proposed hybrid beamforming performs better than an existing hybrid precoding scheme based on channel reconstruction.