On the Required Number of Antennas in a Point-to-Point Large-but-Finite MIMO System: Outage-Limited Scenario
Journal article, 2016

This paper investigates the performance of the pointto-point multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems in the presence of a large but finite numbers of antennas at the transmitters and/or receivers. Considering the cases with and without hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback, we determine the minimum numbers of the transmit/receive antennas which are required to satisfy different outage probability constraints. Our results are obtained for different fading conditions and the effect of the power amplifiers efficiency/feedback error probability on the performance of the MIMO-HARQ systems is analyzed. Then, we use some recent results on the achievable rates of finite blocklength codes, to analyze the effect of the codewords lengths on the system performance. Moreover, we derive closed-form expressions for the asymptotic performance of the MIMO-HARQ systems when the number of antennas increases. Our analytical and numerical results show that different outage requirements can be satisfied with relatively few transmit/receive antennas.

Author

Behrooz Makki

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Tommy Svensson

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Thomas Eriksson

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Mohamed-Slim Alouini

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

IEEE Transactions on Communications

0090-6778 (ISSN) 15580857 (eISSN)

Vol. 64 5 1968-1983 7438859

Millimetre-Wave Based Mobile Radio Access Network for Fifth Generation Integrated Communications (mmMAGIC)

European Commission (EC) (EC/H2020/671650), 2015-07-01 -- 2017-06-30.

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Communication Systems

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2544756

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