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However, its practical implementation is challenged by the difficulty of acquiring reliable instantaneous channel state information (iCSI) and by the high computational complexity induced by large-scale antenna arrays, making it incompatible with fixed codebook-based beamforming schemes commonly adopted in operational systems. In this analysis, we propose a beamspace transmission framework leveraging statistical CSI (sCSI) and achieves reduced computational complexity compared with antenna-domain precoding designs. Specifically, we first propose a low-complexity beam selection algorithm that selects a small subset of beams for each user terminal (UT) from a fixed beamforming codebook, using only the UTs\u2019 two-dimensional (2D) angular information. To suppress CCI among beams, we then derive a beamspace weighted minimum mean square error (WMMSE) precoding scheme based on the equivalent beamspace channel matrix. The derivation employs an sCSI-based WMMSE (sWMMSE) formulation derived from an upper bound approximation of the ergodic sum rate, which provides a tighter estimate than the expected mean square error (MSE)-based lower bound approximation. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed sCSI-based beamspace transmission scheme achieves a favorable trade-off between performance and computational complexity.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e27121214","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,1]],"date-time":"2025-12-01T08:13:49Z","timestamp":1764576829000},"page":"1214","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Statistical CSI-Based Beamspace Transmission for Massive MIMO LEO Satellite Communications"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Qian","family":"Dong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"},{"name":"Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing 211100, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9792-3212","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yafei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"},{"name":"Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing 211100, China"}]},{"given":"Nan","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100032, China"}]},{"given":"Yiming","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"},{"name":"Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing 211100, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5600-6589","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenjin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China"},{"name":"Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing 211100, China"}]},{"given":"Li","family":"Chai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100032, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Wang, W., Zhu, Y., Wang, Y., Ding, R., and Chatzinotas, S. 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