URLLC with Massive MIMO: Analysis and Design at Finite Blocklength
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2021

The fast adoption of Massive MIMO for high-throughput communications was enabled by many research contributions mostly relying on infinite-blocklength information-theoretic bounds. This makes it hard to assess the suitability of Massive MIMO for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) operating with short-blocklength codes. This paper provides a rigorous framework for the characterization and numerical evaluation (using the saddlepoint approximation) of the error probability achievable in the uplink and downlink of Massive MIMO at finite blocklength. The framework encompasses imperfect channel state information, pilot contamination, spatially correlated channels, and arbitrary linear spatial processing. In line with previous results based on infinite-blocklength bounds, we prove that, with minimum mean-square error (MMSE) processing and spatially correlated channels, the error probability at finite blocklength goes to zero as the number M of antennas grows to infinity, even under pilot contamination. However, numerical results for a practical URLLC network setup involving a base station with M = 100 antennas, show that a target error probability of 10-5 can be achieved with MMSE processing, uniformly over each cell, only if orthogonal pilot sequences are assigned to all the users in the network. Maximum ratio processing does not suffice.

asymptotic analysis

MR and MMSE processing

ultra-reliable low-latency communications

pilot contamination

finite blocklength information theory

Massive MIMO

saddlepoint approximation

outage probability

Författare

Johan Östman

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Alejandro Lancho Serrano

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Giuseppe Durisi

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Luca Sanguinetti

Universita di Pisa

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

15361276 (ISSN) 15582248 (eISSN)

Vol. 20 10 6387-6401 21126691

SWIFT : short-packet wireless information theory

Vetenskapsrådet (VR) (2016-03293), 2017-01-01 -- 2020-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

Kommunikationssystem

Signalbehandling

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2021.3073741

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