Massive MIMO with non-ideal arbitrary arrays: Hardware scaling laws and circuit-aware design

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4353-4368

  Björnson, Emil ^a,b,c   Matthaiou, Michail ^d,e   Debbah, Mérouane ^f  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SUPELEC   (France)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f CENTRALESUPÉLEC   (France)

Author keywords

Achievable user rates; channel estimation; massive MIMO; scaling laws; transceiver hardware imperfections

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CELLULAR ARRAYS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COSTS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; HARDWARE; MECHANICS; MIMO SYSTEMS; SCALING LAWS; TRANSCEIVERS;

CIRCUIT POWER CONSUMPTION; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; COHERENT PROCESSING; IMPERFECT CHANNEL KNOWLEDGE; MASSIVE MULTIPLE-INPUT- MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEM (MIMO); NOISE AMPLIFICATION; TRANSCEIVER CIRCUITS; TRANSCEIVER HARDWARE;

RADIO TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 84939493440     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2420095     Document Type: Article

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