Joint User Grouping and Beam Selection for Beamspace mmWave Multi-User MIMO System

Lens antenna arrays based beamspace millimeter-wave multi-user massive MIMO (B-MIMO) can significantly improve energy efficiency without significant loss of spectral efficiency (SE), which is considered as a highly expected technology for future wireless communication networks. Motivated by the requirement of reducing SE loss by efficient user grouping (UG) and beam selection (BS), a joint user grouping and beam selection algorithm is studied. Specifically, a local search based BS algorithm is proposed by proving the convexity of the BS problem after relaxing the constraints. Moreover, a deep learning based UG algorithm is proposed by equivalently transforming the UG problem into a classification problem. The results of theoretical analysis and numerical simulation show that the proposed algorithms can be more closely with the performance of the exhaustive search algorithm and the complexity is lower than that of the traditional algorithms.