Efficient Beamforming for MIMO Relaying Broadcast Channel with Imperfect Channel Estimation

Abstract: We consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relaying boardcast channel in downlink cellular networks, where the base station and the relay stations are both equipped with multiple antennas, and each user terminal has only a single antenna. In practical scenarios, channel estimation is imperfect at the receivers. Aiming at maximizing the SINR at each user, we develop two robust linear beamforming schemes respectively for the single relay case and the multi-relay case. The two proposed schemes are based on sigular value decomposition (SVD), minimum mean square error (MMSE) and regularized zero-forcing (RZF). Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional schemes with imperfect channel estimation.