Coordinated beamforming design for multicell systems with transceiver impairments: from perspective of spectral efficiency to energy efficiency

Physical transceiver implementations for wireless communication systems usually suffer from transmit-radio frequency (Tx-RF) and receiver-RF (Rx-RF) impairments. In this paper, we aim to design efficient coordinated beamforming for multicell multiuser multi-antenna systems by fully taking into account the residual transceiver impairments. Our design objectives include both spectral efficiency and energy efficiency. In particular, we first derive the closed-form expression of the mean square error (MSE) which includes the impact of transceiver impairments. Based on that, we propose an alternating optimization algorithm to solve the coordinated multicell beamforming problems with the goal of minimizing the worst user MSE, and the sum MSE. Then, by exploiting the relationship between the minimummean square error (MMSE) and the achievable rate, we develop a new algorithm to address the sum rate maximization problem. This approach is further generalized to solve the more intractable energy efficiency optimization problem. We prove that all the proposed iterative algorithms guarantee to converge to a stationary point. Numerical results show that our proposed schemes achieve a better performance than conventional coordinated beamforming algorithms that were designed ignoring the transceiver impairments.