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A Case Study on the Influence of Multiple Users on the Effective Channel in a Massive MIMO System

Bengtsson, Erik L LU ; Flordelis i Minguez, José LU ; Rusek, Fredrik LU ; karlsson, Peter C. ; Tufvesson, Fredrik LU orcid and Edfors, Ove LU orcid (2019) In IEEE Wireless Communications Letters p.1-6
Abstract
We investigate the importance of weak clusters when modeling a wireless massive MIMO channel. We do this by studying the influence of densely spaced terminals and the number of base-station antennas for a zero-forcing precoded massive MIMO system. In particular, we focus on the influence on the correlation and imbalance between the signals at the terminal antennas, the effective channel-gain, the eigenvalue distributions and the number of clusters.
The study is based on measured radio-channels from terminal prototypes with integrated antennas connected to a massive MIMO testbed.
We further evaluate the advantage of using block-diagonalized zero-forcing compared to conventional zero-forcing in a massive MIMO system. Unexpectedly,... (More)
We investigate the importance of weak clusters when modeling a wireless massive MIMO channel. We do this by studying the influence of densely spaced terminals and the number of base-station antennas for a zero-forcing precoded massive MIMO system. In particular, we focus on the influence on the correlation and imbalance between the signals at the terminal antennas, the effective channel-gain, the eigenvalue distributions and the number of clusters.
The study is based on measured radio-channels from terminal prototypes with integrated antennas connected to a massive MIMO testbed.
We further evaluate the advantage of using block-diagonalized zero-forcing compared to conventional zero-forcing in a massive MIMO system. Unexpectedly, terminals with low antenna envelope correlation coefficient may benefit significantly from block-diagonal zero-forcing in a massive MIMO system.
The main conclusion is that weaker clusters are important when modeling multi-user scenarios. (Less)
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10.1109/LWC.2019.2957077
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  author       = {{Bengtsson, Erik L and Flordelis i Minguez, José and Rusek, Fredrik and karlsson, Peter C. and Tufvesson, Fredrik and Edfors, Ove}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{12}},
  pages        = {{1--6}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  series       = {{IEEE Wireless Communications Letters}},
  title        = {{A Case Study on the Influence of Multiple Users on the Effective Channel in a Massive MIMO System}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/72831667/MUMIMO_minor_final.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/LWC.2019.2957077}},
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