Hybrid MIMO Transceiver Scheme with Antenna Allocation and Partial CSI at Transmitter Side

Hybrid multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver scheme (HMTS) combines transmit diversity and spatial multiplexing, thus achieving at the same time the two possible spatial gains offered by MIMO channels. In the design of HMTS spatial diversity and spatial multiplexing branches are disposed in parallel in order to achieve diversity and multiplexing gains at the same time. Since the spatial multiplexing branches have no protection, they are more susceptible to the fading effect becoming the bottleneck in the performance of the whole transceiver. In this paper, we propose a solution to this bottleneck in the hybrid MIMO transceiver scheme using a partial channel state information at the transmitter side. The idea is to perform an antenna allocation. Thus, the most powerful subchannels are allocated to the most susceptible layers (spatial multiplexing branches). Through this solution we decrease the performance imbalance between the two layers of the HMTS G3+1, increasing the whole transceiver performance with low complexity feedback requirements.