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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2017
Alcatel Lucent, Nozay, FR;
Lei Wang, Shanghai, CN;
Zhenhao Cai, Shanghai, CN;
Kun Zhao, Shanghai, CN;
Xunyong Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Yang Xu, Shanghai, CN;
Alcatel Lucent, Nozay, FR;
Abstract
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a beamforming method for a massive MIMO system. Specifically, S routes of data streams to be transmitted via the antenna array are subjected to horizontal direction baseband beamforming processing, to obtain T routes of data streams; the T-routes of data streams are subjected to vertical direction digital beamforming processing to map the T routes of data streams onto a corresponding channel according to a predetermined rule; a data stream on each channel is subjected to analog beamforming processing to map the data stream on each channel onto a corresponding array element of the antenna array for transmission. Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure implements the following advantages: by combining the advantages of RF beamforming with the BB beamforming with limited antennas at the FH, a good flexibility regarding BB algorithm selection and RF beam design is provided, which balances the complexity and performance between BB and RF and implements a massive MIMO in sub-6 GHz.