Title
Massive Mimo Channels - Measurements And Models
Abstract
Spatial multiplexing using Massive MIMO has been shown to have very promising properties, including large gains in spectral efficiency and several orders of magnitude lower transmit power, as compared to today's access schemes. The properties of massive MIMO have been studied mostly for theoretical channels with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) complex Gaussian coefficients. To efficiently evaluate massive MIMO in more realistic scenarios, we need channel models that capture important massive MIMO channel characteristics. We pursue this by analyzing measurement data from a measurement campaign in the 2.6 GHz frequency range, using a physically large array with 128 elements. Key propagation characteristics are identified from the measurements. We use the cluster-based COST 2100 MIMO channel model as a basis, and propose an extension to include those important propagation properties for massive MIMO. Statistical models of the total number of clusters, their visibility regions and visibility gains at the base station side are found based on the measurement data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ACSSC.2013.6810277
2013 ASILOMAR CONFERENCE ON SIGNALS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTERS
Keywords
Field
DocType
base stations,5g,multi user mimo,mimo,mobile communication
MIMO-OFDM,Transmitter power output,Multi-user MIMO,3G MIMO,Computer science,Communication channel,MIMO,Electronic engineering,Spectral efficiency,Spatial multiplexing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1058-6393
31
1.40
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiang Gao118513.42
Fredrik Tufvesson24565254.00
Ove Edfors32221134.61