THE PERFORMANCE OF A HYBRID BEAMFORMING mmWAVE MIMO SYSTEM WITH NON-IDEAL HARDWARE

Abstract

With the increasing wireless data traffic and data rate demands, milimeter-wave band corresponding to the frequency range 30-300 GHz has much attention of the researchers. Using multiple antennas at the transmitter and the receiver with beamforming helps overcome high transmission loss. Therefore, millimeter-wave Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mmWave MIMO) is a key technology for the next generation wireless communication system. However, due to hardware constrains when operating in the high frequency range, the performance of a mmWave MIMO system will decrease. In this paper, we analysis system performance of a hybrid beamforming mmWave MIMO system with non-ideal hardware (phase noise and quantization noise).