Efficient Multi-Beam Training For Terahertz Wireless communications

Abstract: Although Terahertz communication systems can provide high data rates, it needs high directional beamforming at transmitters and receivers to achieve such rates over a long distance. Therefore, an efficient beam training method is vital to accelerate the link establishment. In this study, we propose a low-complexity beam training scheme of terahertz communication system which uses a low-cost small-scale hybrid architecture to assist a large-scale array for data transmission. The proposed scheme includes two key stages: (1) coarse AoAs/AoDs estimation for beam subset optimization in auxiliary array stage, and (2) accurate AoAs/AoDs estimation by exploiting channel sparsity in data transmission array stage. The analysis shows that the complexity of the scheme is linear with the number of main paths, and thus greatly reduces the complexity of beam training. Simulation results have verified the better performance in spectral efficiency of the proposed scheme than that of the related work.