Codebook Design for Uniform Rectangular Arrays of Massive Antennas

Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) is an emerging research field due to the increasing demand of spectral efficiency in wireless broadband systems, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) which is proposed by 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project). Precoding is important to exploit the performance of massive MIMO, and codebook design is crucial due to the limited feedback channel. In this paper, we propose a novel double codebook design method based on a Kronecker-type approximation of the array correlation structure for the uniform rectangular array, which is preferable for the antenna deployment of massive MIMO systems. As a case study, we run simulations based on assumptions of the LTE-Advanced system which is extended to 32 dual-polarized antennas. The results verify that the proposed codebook design has remarkable performance gain compared to the traditional double codebook under the uniform rectangular array setup.