Abstract:

A method for codebook design is proposed to support beamforming mechanism in a 60 GHz millimeter-wave wireless communication environment. The codebook is designed with only phase shifting but not any amplitude adjustment to meet the low power consumption requirement. N complex numbers of the same phase interval and amplitude of 1 are designed to generate a codebook matrix. Simulation shows that, compared with the codebook in IEEE802.15.3c, a similar mainlobe patterns can be obtained in the proposed high-order codebook, while the sidelobe level appears lower, and the antenna gain at the direction of main response axis is higher. Meanwhile the interference decreases obviously with an improved total channel capacity in the practice environment, and the codebook is also robust to the beam shifting deriving from phase errors.

Key words: 60 GHz wireless communication, beamforming, codebook design