Massive MIMO systems with hardware-constrained base stations
Paper i proceeding, 2014

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are cellular networks where the base stations (BSs) are equipped with unconventionally many antennas. Such large antenna arrays offer huge spatial degrees-of-freedom for transmission optimization; in particular, great signal gains, resilience to imperfect channel knowledge, and small inter-user interference are all achievable without extensive inter-cell coordination. The key to cost-efficient deployment of large arrays is the use of hardware-constrained base stations with low-cost antenna elements, as compared to today's expensive and power-hungry BSs. Low-cost transceivers are prone to hardware imperfections, but it has been conjectured that the excessive degrees-of-freedom of massive MIMO would bring robustness to such imperfections. We herein prove this claim for an uplink channel with multiplicative phase-drift, additive distortion noise, and noise amplification. Specifically, we derive a closed-form scaling law that shows how fast the imperfections increase with the number of antennas.

scaling laws

massive MIMO

channel estimation

transceiver hardware imperfections

Achievable uplink rates

Författare

E. Björnson

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Nokia

Michail Matthaiou

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Signalbehandling och medicinsk teknik

M. Debbah

Nokia

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

15206149 (ISSN)

3142-3146
978-147992892-7 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Signalbehandling

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854179

ISBN

978-147992892-7

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