Robust energy-efficient analog beamforming under short packets and per-antenna power constraints

Designing energy-efficient beamformers is a major challenge to the deployment of battery-powered devices transmitting short data packets at millimeter-wave frequencies. In general, directly maximizing energy efficiency will not meet the stringent reliability requirements of certain Internet-of-Thing...

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Autores: Borràs Pino, Jordi|||0000-0002-9568-6353, Molina Oliveras, Francesc|||0000-0002-3188-5599, López Valcarce, Roberto, Sala Álvarez, José|||0000-0002-6879-1991, Vázquez Grau, Gregorio|||0000-0002-3007-6247
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/430136
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/430136
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2025.3563305
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Analog beamforming
Energy efficiency
Millimeter-wave communication
Short-packet communication
Finite-resolution phase shifters
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Processament del senyal
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Sumario:Designing energy-efficient beamformers is a major challenge to the deployment of battery-powered devices transmitting short data packets at millimeter-wave frequencies. In general, directly maximizing energy efficiency will not meet the stringent reliability requirements of certain Internet-of-Things applications. We focus on designing analog beamformers in a device-to-device setting under short packets, a finite encoder set, and imperfect channel knowledge. To guarantee the required error decoding performance, a two-step procedure is proposed such that beamformers are designed to minimize the power consumption subject to reliability constraints under worst-case channel estimation errors, and then the channel encoder maximizing the energy efficiency is selected. The proposed design enjoys a moderate loss under practical low-resolution phase shifters, and exhibits robustness to inaccurate channel estimators, which is crucial to the tradeoff between energy efficiency and error decoding performance.