Power-efficient Beam Pattern Synthesis via Sequential Outer Approximation Procedure

The hardware implementation of large-scale multi-antenna systems requires power-efficient power amplifiers (PAs). However, the existing beamforming designs often cause a large peak-to-average power ratio and have to rely on power-inefficient PAs. In this paper, we propose a unified power-efficient beamforming design framework, which incorporates per-antenna constant envelope constraints to improve the power efficiency. We further propose an efficient algorithm named "sequential outer approximation procedure" (SOAP) to search a feasible point. Power-efficient design for beam pattern synthesis is developed based on SOAP.