Massive MIMO architecture for 5G networks: Co-located, or distributed?

  • Deli Qiao
  • , Ye Wu
  • , Yan Chen

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Abstract

Massive MIMO has been identified as one of the promising disruptive air interface technologies to address the massive capacity requirement demanded by 5G wireless communications. Most of the existing works showed different benefits of massive MIMO system but for the co-located deployment scenario. In this paper, we are interested to find out extra benefits that may be brought by distributing the massive number of antennas to different levels. Specifically, we compare the performance of co-located and distributed deployment scenarios in the framework of area spectrum efficiency (ASE) and area energy efficiency (AEE) tradeoff. Closed-form expressions are derived to help discover important design insights. For instance, it is interesting to see the distribution of the massive antennas always helps to improve ASE, but not the case for AEE. Moreover, with the large number of transmit antennas available and the practical cost of channel estimation considered, collaboration between cells is not always welcomed in each deployment scenario and the positive use cases depend on system parameters such as the number of antennas and the way they are distributed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, ISWCS 2014 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages192-197
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479958634
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Oct 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, ISWCS 2014 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 26 Aug 201429 Aug 2014

Publication series

Name2014 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, ISWCS 2014 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2014 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, ISWCS 2014
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period26/08/1429/08/14

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