Electromagnetic lens-focusing antenna enabled massive MIMO: Performance improvement and cost reduction

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1194-1206

  Zeng, Yong ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a   Chen, Zhi Ning ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

antenna selection; cellular networks; large scale antenna system; lens antenna; majorization theory; Massive MIMO; multiuser detection

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; FOCUSING; HARDWARE; LENS ANTENNAS; MIMO SYSTEMS; MULTIUSER DETECTION; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA SELECTION; ANTENNA SYSTEM; CELLULAR NETWORK; IMPERFECT CHANNEL ESTIMATION; MAJORIZATION THEORY; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT TECHNIQUES; NEXT GENERATION CELLULAR NETWORKS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84905014711     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2014.2328151     Document Type: Article

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