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As massive machine type communication (mMTC) was considered in the deployments of 5G, a transmitter of the hybrid beamforming system should communicate with multiple devices at the same time. To communicate with multiple devices in the same time and frequency slot, high-dimensional channel information should be used to control interferences between the receivers. Therefore, the feedback overhead for the channels of the devices is impractically high. To reduce the overhead, this paper uses common sparsity of channel and nonlinear quantization. To find a common sparse part of a wide frequency band, the proposed system uses minimum mean squared error orthogonal matching pursuit (MMSE-OMP). After the search of the common sparse basis, sparse vectors of subcarriers are searched by using the basis. The sparse vectors are quantized by a nonlinear codebook that is generated by conditional random vector quantization (RVQ). For the conditional RVQ, the Linde\u2013Buzo\u2013Gray (LBG) algorithm is used in conditional vector space. Typically, elements of sparse vectors are sorted according to magnitude by the OMP algorithm. The proposed quantization scheme considers the property for the conditional RVQ. For feedback, indices of the common sparse basis and the quantized sparse vectors are delivered and the channel is recovered at a transmitter for precoding of MU-MIMO. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves lower MMSE for the recovered channel than that of the linear quantization scheme. Furthermore, the transmitter can adopt analog and digital precoding matrix freely by the recovered channel and achieve higher sum rate than that of conventional codebook-based MU-MIMO precoding schemes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21165298","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,5]],"date-time":"2021-08-05T09:35:32Z","timestamp":1628156132000},"page":"5298","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Efficient Channel Feedback Scheme for Multi-User MIMO Hybrid Beamforming Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Won-Seok","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea"},{"name":"Department of Convergence Engineering for Intelligent Drone, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3274-4982","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hyoung-Kyu","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea"},{"name":"Department of Convergence Engineering for Intelligent Drone, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,8,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"101","DOI":"10.1109\/MCOM.2011.5783993","article-title":"An introduction to millimeter-wave mobile broadband systems","volume":"49","author":"Pi","year":"2011","journal-title":"IEEE Commun. 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