Ultra-High-Throughput Massive Mimo Field-Trial Over Radio Computing Architecture With Peak Spectrum Efficiency Of 79.82 Bps/Hz
2017 IEEE 28TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERSONAL, INDOOR, AND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS (PIMRC)(2017)
摘要
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been considered as one of the key technologies in 5G communication, owing to its promising potential to increase the spectrum efficiency significantly. The capacity grows rapidly with the increasing number of antennas. However, in real-time environment, the more antennas are employed, the more computing resources are required, and this increase is even in a nonlinear progression. In this work, radio computing architecture (RCA) with multiple parallel general purpose processors (GPPs) and automatic distribution system (ADS) are utilized to overcome the strict real-time constraints and establish a highly flexible prototype platform for massive MIMO research. The feasibility and performance of the GPP-based prototype has been investigated through field trial. A collocated 64-RF-channel base station (BS) with each RF channel driving 3 antennas can simultaneously serve twelve 8-antenna user equipments (UEs). The maximum overall bandwidth is 200 MHz, and the maximum flow number is pre-defined as 24. In this field trial, a peak total user throughput of 11.29 Gbps and a cell spectrum efficiency of 79.82 bps/Hz are achieved. As far as we know, this is the world's highest throughput ever achieved in the sub 6 GHz band. Furthermore, apart from multi-user MIMO, single-user MIMO is also tested in this field trial.
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5G, massive MIMO, cloud RAN, radio computing architecture (RCA), field trial
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