Real-Time Implementation Aspects of Large Intelligent Surfaces
(2020) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2020 p.9170-9174- Abstract
- With the potential to provide a clean break from massive multiple-input multiple-output, large intelligent surfaces (LISs) have recently received a thrust of research interest. Various proposals have been made in the literature to define the exact functionality of LISs, ranging from fully active to largely passive solutions. Nevertheless, almost all studies in the literature investigate the fundamental spectral efficiency performance of these architectures. In stark contrast, this paper investigates the implementation aspects of LISs. Using the fully active LIS as the basis of our exposition, we first present a rigorous discussion on the relative merits and disadvantages of possible implementation architectures from a radio-frequency... (More)
- With the potential to provide a clean break from massive multiple-input multiple-output, large intelligent surfaces (LISs) have recently received a thrust of research interest. Various proposals have been made in the literature to define the exact functionality of LISs, ranging from fully active to largely passive solutions. Nevertheless, almost all studies in the literature investigate the fundamental spectral efficiency performance of these architectures. In stark contrast, this paper investigates the implementation aspects of LISs. Using the fully active LIS as the basis of our exposition, we first present a rigorous discussion on the relative merits and disadvantages of possible implementation architectures from a radio-frequency circuits and real-time processing viewpoints. We then show that a distributed architecture based on a common module interfacing a smaller number of antennas can be scalable. To avoid severe losses with analog signal distribution, multiple common modules can be interconnected via a digital nearest-neighbor network. Furthermore, we show that with such a design, the maximum backplane throughput scales with the number of served user terminals, instead of the number of antennas across the surface. The discussions in the paper can serve as a guideline toward the real-time design and development of LISs. (Less)
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- author
- Tataria, Harsh LU ; Tufvesson, Fredrik LU and Edfors, Ove LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Backplane complexity, common modules, distributed architectures, LIS, real-time implementation
- host publication
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2020
- pages
- 5 pages
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- conference name
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2020
- conference location
- Barcelona, Spain
- conference dates
- 2020-05-04 - 2020-05-08
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85089242260
- ISBN
- 978-1-5090-6631-5
- DOI
- 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053897
- project
- Massive Mimo Technology and Applications
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Invited Paper in the Proceedings of IEEE ICASSP 2020, Barcelona.
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- 2f04a760-3fe7-44d2-8fc3-0924afbae402
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