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An Energy Efficiency Perspective on Massive MIMO Quantization

Sarajlic, Muris LU ; Liu, Liang LU orcid and Edfors, Ove LU orcid (2017) 50th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR 2016) p.473-478
Abstract
One of the basic aspects of Massive MIMO (MaMi) that is in the focus of current investigations is its potential of using low-cost and energy-efficient hardware. It is often claimed that MaMi will allow for using analog-to-digital converters
(ADCs) with very low resolutions and that this will result in overall improvement of energy efficiency. In this contribution, we perform a parametric energy efficiency analysis of MaMi uplink for the entire base station receiver system with varying
ADC resolutions. The analysis shows that, for a wide variety of system parameters, ADCs with intermediate bit resolutions (4 - 10 bits) are optimal in energy efficiency sense, and that using very low bit resolutions results in degradation of energy... (More)
One of the basic aspects of Massive MIMO (MaMi) that is in the focus of current investigations is its potential of using low-cost and energy-efficient hardware. It is often claimed that MaMi will allow for using analog-to-digital converters
(ADCs) with very low resolutions and that this will result in overall improvement of energy efficiency. In this contribution, we perform a parametric energy efficiency analysis of MaMi uplink for the entire base station receiver system with varying
ADC resolutions. The analysis shows that, for a wide variety of system parameters, ADCs with intermediate bit resolutions (4 - 10 bits) are optimal in energy efficiency sense, and that using very low bit resolutions results in degradation of energy efficiency. (Less)
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Proceedings of the 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers
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473 - 478
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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50th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR 2016)
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Pacific Grove, United States
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2016-11-06 - 2016-11-09
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  • scopus:85016264460
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978-1-5386-3954-2
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10.1109/ACSSC.2016.7869084
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English
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  abstract     = {{One of the basic aspects of Massive MIMO (MaMi) that is in the focus of current investigations is its potential of using low-cost and energy-efficient hardware. It is often claimed that MaMi will allow for using analog-to-digital converters<br/>(ADCs) with very low resolutions and that this will result in overall improvement of energy efficiency. In this contribution, we perform a parametric energy efficiency analysis of MaMi uplink for the entire base station receiver system with varying<br/>ADC resolutions. The analysis shows that, for a wide variety of system parameters, ADCs with intermediate bit resolutions (4 - 10 bits) are optimal in energy efficiency sense, and that using very low bit resolutions results in degradation of energy efficiency.}},
  author       = {{Sarajlic, Muris and Liu, Liang and Edfors, Ove}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-5386-3954-2}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{473--478}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{An Energy Efficiency Perspective on Massive MIMO Quantization}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/17966598/Paper.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/ACSSC.2016.7869084}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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