Publication detail

Does a Large Array Aperture Pay Off in Line-Of-Sight Massive MIMO?

PRATSCHNER, S. ZÖCHMANN, E. GROLL, H. CABAN, S. SCHWARZ, S. RUPP, M.

Original Title

Does a Large Array Aperture Pay Off in Line-Of-Sight Massive MIMO?

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered a promising PHY scheme for future mobile communications systems. As it aims to serve many users simultaneously via spatial multiplexing, a high number of antennas at the base station is required. Since this leads to implementation issues in terms of hardware and signal processing complexity, efforts to increase the system performance for a given number of antennas are worthwhile. In this contribution, we investigate the gain in achievable downlink sum spectral efficiency (SE) of a massive MIMO system due to increased array apertures. We compare different antenna array configurations and precoder normalization strategies for maximum ratio transmission precoding and regularized zero forcing precoding. By quantifying the increase in achievable SE that is obtained when increasing the inter-antenna spacing of a linear array, we show that it hardly pays off to increase the array aperture.

Keywords

antenna array; large array; massive MIMO; multi-user MIMO

Authors

PRATSCHNER, S.; ZÖCHMANN, E.; GROLL, H.; CABAN, S.; SCHWARZ, S.; RUPP, M.

Released

29. 8. 2019

Publisher

IEEE

Location

Cannes, FRANCE

ISBN

978-1-5386-6528-2

Book

2019 IEEE 20TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SIGNAL PROCESSING ADVANCES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS (SPAWC 2019)

Pages from

1

Pages to

5

Pages count

5

URL

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT177219,
  author="Stefan {Pratschner} and Erich {Zöchmann} and Herbert {Groll} and Sebastian {Caban} and Stefan {Schwarz} and Markus {Rupp}",
  title="Does a Large Array Aperture Pay Off in Line-Of-Sight Massive MIMO?",
  booktitle="2019 IEEE 20TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SIGNAL PROCESSING ADVANCES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS (SPAWC 2019)",
  year="2019",
  pages="1--5",
  publisher="IEEE",
  address="Cannes, FRANCE",
  doi="10.1109/SPAWC.2019.8815590",
  isbn="978-1-5386-6528-2",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8815590"
}