The high cost and power consumption of radio-frequency (RF) in massive MIMO systems render conventional architecture infeasible. Hence, new architectures with higher efficiency are needed. In this thesis, first, we introduce a new transmission scheme based on the architecture of hybrid precoding. Then, we develop low complexity beam selection algorithm to efficiently select the RF chain configurations for energy efficiency (EE) optimization. In addition, we also evaluate the computational complexity of the proposed beam selection algorithm. Finally, analysis and simulation results show that the proposed beam selection algorithm can reduce system complexity and achieve comparable energy efficiency compared with exhaustive search with much lower complexity.