Offset-Based Beamforming: A New Approach to Robust Downlink Transmission
Mostafa Medra, Yongwei Huang, Timothy N. Davidson

TL;DR
This paper introduces a new offset-based beamforming method for robust downlink transmission in multiuser MISO systems, enabling efficient, convex optimization-based design under imperfect channel information with controllable power and outage performance.
Contribution
It develops a convex optimization framework using a novel approximation of the SINR outage constraint, along with low-cost iterative algorithms and power loading techniques for large antenna systems.
Findings
Convex formulation of beamformer design under channel uncertainty.
Low computational cost algorithms for small uncertainty systems.
Power control algorithms that balance outage probability and power consumption.
Abstract
The design of a set of beamformers for the multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink that provides the receivers with prespecified levels of quality-of-service (QoS) can be quite challenging when the channel state information is not perfectly known at the base station. The constraint of having the SINR meet or exceed a given threshold with high probability is intractable in general, which results in problems that are fundamentally hard to solve. In this paper, we will develop a high quality approximation of the SINR outage constraint that, along with a semidefinite relaxation, enables us to formulate the beamformer design problem as a convex optimization problem that can be efficiently solved. For systems in which the uncertainty size is small, a further approximation yields algorithms based on iterative evaluations of closed-form expressions that have substantially lower…
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