Coverage Analysis of Distributed Beamforming With Random Phase Offsets Using Ginibre Point Process

In this paper, we study a wireless network where multiple distributed transmitters control the phases of their signals so that they can be constructively combined at a client receiver. Unlike centralized beamforming with co-located and phase-synchronized antennas, geographically separated transmitte...

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Main Authors: Justin Kong, Fikadu T. Dagefu, Brian M. Sadler
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9143079/
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Fikadu T. Dagefu
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description In this paper, we study a wireless network where multiple distributed transmitters control the phases of their signals so that they can be constructively combined at a client receiver. Unlike centralized beamforming with co-located and phase-synchronized antennas, geographically separated transmitters experience phase offsets caused by the individual local oscillators. In practical scenarios, the transmitters should not be placed too close to each other in order to alleviate mutual coupling effects and extend the coverage region. In this regard, we model the spatial distribution of the transmitters as a β -Ginibre point process that models the repulsive feature. We investigate two types of transmission strategies: (i) Transmitter selection in which the client selects the transmitter providing the highest received power at the client, and (ii) Coherent beamforming in which multiple transmitters send their signals simultaneously to the client in the presence of phase offsets among the transmitters. We introduce the exact expression of the coverage probability of the transmitter selection method. Also, we derive an approximation of the coverage probability of the coherent beamforming scheme by leveraging two scaling factors that respectively capture the impacts of the phase offsets and the degree of repulsion on the coverage probability. From numerical simulations, we validate the accuracy of our analysis.
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spelling doaj.art-d4eb7159ca55453183ecc2176054c72f2022-12-21T20:18:51ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01813435113436210.1109/ACCESS.2020.30101629143079Coverage Analysis of Distributed Beamforming With Random Phase Offsets Using Ginibre Point ProcessJustin Kong0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2856-7060Fikadu T. Dagefu1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7532-5278Brian M. Sadler2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9564-3812U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USAU.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USAU.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USAIn this paper, we study a wireless network where multiple distributed transmitters control the phases of their signals so that they can be constructively combined at a client receiver. Unlike centralized beamforming with co-located and phase-synchronized antennas, geographically separated transmitters experience phase offsets caused by the individual local oscillators. In practical scenarios, the transmitters should not be placed too close to each other in order to alleviate mutual coupling effects and extend the coverage region. In this regard, we model the spatial distribution of the transmitters as a β -Ginibre point process that models the repulsive feature. We investigate two types of transmission strategies: (i) Transmitter selection in which the client selects the transmitter providing the highest received power at the client, and (ii) Coherent beamforming in which multiple transmitters send their signals simultaneously to the client in the presence of phase offsets among the transmitters. We introduce the exact expression of the coverage probability of the transmitter selection method. Also, we derive an approximation of the coverage probability of the coherent beamforming scheme by leveraging two scaling factors that respectively capture the impacts of the phase offsets and the degree of repulsion on the coverage probability. From numerical simulations, we validate the accuracy of our analysis.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9143079/Coverage probabilitydistributed beamformingphase offsetrepulsive point processstochastic geometry
spellingShingle Justin Kong
Fikadu T. Dagefu
Brian M. Sadler
Coverage Analysis of Distributed Beamforming With Random Phase Offsets Using Ginibre Point Process
IEEE Access
Coverage probability
distributed beamforming
phase offset
repulsive point process
stochastic geometry
title Coverage Analysis of Distributed Beamforming With Random Phase Offsets Using Ginibre Point Process
title_full Coverage Analysis of Distributed Beamforming With Random Phase Offsets Using Ginibre Point Process
title_fullStr Coverage Analysis of Distributed Beamforming With Random Phase Offsets Using Ginibre Point Process
title_full_unstemmed Coverage Analysis of Distributed Beamforming With Random Phase Offsets Using Ginibre Point Process
title_short Coverage Analysis of Distributed Beamforming With Random Phase Offsets Using Ginibre Point Process
title_sort coverage analysis of distributed beamforming with random phase offsets using ginibre point process
topic Coverage probability
distributed beamforming
phase offset
repulsive point process
stochastic geometry
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9143079/
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