An overview of transmission theory and techniques of large-scale antenna systems for 5G wireless communications

Science China Information Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Dongming ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Wei, Hao ^a   You, Xiaohu ^a   Gao, Xiqi ^a   Wang, Jiangzhou ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

channel state information acquisition; large scale distributed antenna systems; massive MIMO; multi user MIMO; resource allocation; spectral efficiency; the fifth generation mobile communication

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MIMO SYSTEMS; RADIO BROADCASTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MULTI-USER MIMO; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT ANTENNAS; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84978748597     PISSN: 1674733X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-016-0278-5     Document Type: Review

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