Low Complexity Coordinated Beamforming in 2-User MIMO Systems

Ki-Hong Park, Young-Chai Ko, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, James Sungjin Kim

Abstract: In this paper, We propose a new non-iterative coordinated beamforming scheme to obtain full multiplexing gain in 2-user MIMO systems. In order to find the beamforming and combining matrices, we solve a generalized eigenvector problem and describe how to find generalized eigenvectors according to the Gaussian broadcast channels. Selected simulation results show that the proposed method yields the same sum-rate performance as the iterative coordinated beamforming method with a lower complexity non-iterative computation of the beamforming and combining matrices. We also show that the proposed method can easily exploit selective gain by choosing the best combination of generalized eigenvectors.