
This paper investigates the performance of different antenna array structures for hybrid massive-MIMO precoding schemes using few-bit DACs. Particularly, the proposed hybrid scheme includes two precoding stages: the RF-beamforming stage is designed via the slowly time-varying channel second-order correlation matrix, while the baseband multi-user (MU) precoding stage is constructed via the regularized zero-forcing (RZF) technique to mitigating the MU-interference. For the same system cost and complexity, we examine the achieved sum-rate and energy efficiency of various 2D antenna array structures, namely, uniform linear array (ULA), uniform rectangular array (URA), uniform circular array (UCA), and concentric circular array (CCA), in serving multiple users at different angular locations. The Monte Carlo simulation results indicate the higher achievable rate and energy efficiency of CCA by using low-resolution DACs as compared to various 2D array structures. We also show that only (3-5)-bit DACs are sufficient to provide comparable spectral and energy efficiencies.
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