Beamforming with Per-Antenna Power Constraint and Transmit Antenna Selection Using Convex Optimization Technique

In this paper, transmit beamforming and antenna selection techniques are presented for the Cooperative Distributed Antenna System. The beamforming technique with minimum total weighted transmit power satisfying threshold SINR and Per-Antenna Power constraints using convex optimization is presented for the efficient performance of Distributed Antenna System (DAS). Antenna Selection technique is used to select the optimum antennas from all the available ones. This achieves the best compromise between capacity and system complexity. Simulation results prove that integrating Beamforming with DAS enhances the performance of DAS. Also antenna selection reduces the cost of RF front end