Robust power adjustment for transmit beamforming in cellular communication systems

A new robust power adjustment method is proposed for transmit beamforming in cellular communication systems that use antenna arrays at base stations (BSs). Our method provides an improved robustness against imperfect knowledge of the wireless channel by means of maintaining the required quality of service (QoS) for the worst-case channel uncertainty.

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