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arXiv · 1307.3940

Large-scale MU-MIMO: It Is Necessary to Deploy Extra Antennas at Base Station

Abstract

In this paper, the large-scale MU-MIMO system is considered where a base station (BS) with extremely large number of antennas (N) serves relatively less number of users (K). In order to achieve largest sum rate, it is proven that the amount of users must be limited such that the number of antennas at the BS is preponderant over that of the antennas at all the users. In other words, the antennas at the BS should be excess. The extra antennas at the BS are no longer just an optional approach to enhance the system performance but the prerequisite to the largest sum rate. Based on this factor, for a fixed N, the optimal K that maximizes the sum rate is further obtained. Additionally, it is also pointed out that the sum rate can be substantially improved by only adding a few antennas at the BS when the system is N=KM with M denoting the antennas at each user. The derivations are under the assumption of N and M going to infinity, and being implemented on different precoders. Numerical simulations verify the tightness and accuracy of our asymptotic results even for small N and M.

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Wei Ding, Tiejun Lv. 2013-07-15. Large-scale MU-MIMO: It Is Necessary to Deploy Extra Antennas at Base Station. https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3940

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