# MIMO-UFMC Transceiver Schemes for Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications

## TL;DR

This paper designs and analyzes a MIMO-UFMC transceiver for millimeter wave wireless systems, evaluating detection schemes and interference management to improve spectral efficiency and robustness against phase noise.

## Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive MIMO-UFMC transceiver model with hybrid beamforming and compares detection schemes, highlighting the effectiveness of linear MMSE detectors in interference management.

## Key findings

- Linear MMSE detector manages increased interference effectively.
- Removing guard times increases spectral efficiency by 10-13%.
- Transceiver algorithms show robustness against phase noise.

## Abstract

The UFMC modulation is among the most considered solutions for the realization of beyond-OFDM air interfaces for future wireless networks. This paper focuses on the design and analysis of an UFMC transceiver equipped with multiple antennas and operating at millimeter wave carrier frequencies. The paper provides the full mathematical model of a MIMO-UFMC transceiver, taking into account the presence of hybrid analog/digital beamformers at both ends of the communication links. Then, several detection structures are proposed, both for the case of single-packet isolated transmission, and for the case of multiple-packet continuous transmission. In the latter situation, the paper also considers the case in which no guard time among adjacent packets is inserted, trading off an increased level of interference with higher values of spectral efficiency. At the analysis stage, the several considered detection structures and transmission schemes are compared in terms of bit-error-rate, root-mean-square-error, and system throughput. The numerical results show that the proposed transceiver algorithms are effective and that the linear MMSE data detector is capable of well managing the increased interference brought by the removal of guard times among consecutive packets, thus yielding throughput gains of about 10 - 13 $\%$. The effect of phase noise at the receiver is also numerically assessed, and it is shown that the recursive implementation of the linear MMSE exhibits some degree of robustness against this disturbance.