Multi-User Downlink Transmit Beamforming for the Broadband Single-Carrier Distributed Antenna Network

This paper studies the multi-user downlink transmit beamforming algorithms for the broadband single-carrier distributed antenna network (SC-DAN). The distributed antennas will be used as antenna arrays by using transmit beamforming. In this work, the beamforming weight is designed in order to avoid the interference cancellation from the mobile terminals. Two methods are adopted. One is to use the maximum ratio transmission (MRT) beamforming weight to maximize the desired signal´s power at each mobile terminal. The other one is to use the null steering beamforming weight to minimize the interference power at each mobile terminal. The beamforming algorithms using the two methods are described and their performances are compared by computer simulations.