The World's First Real-Time Testbed for Massive MIMO: Design, Implementation, and Validation

IEEE Access

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages 9073-9088

  Malkowsky, Steffen ^a   Vieira, Joao ^a   Liu, Liang ^a   Harris, Paul ^b   Nieman, Karl ^c   Kundargi, Nikhil ^c   Wong, Ian C ^c   Tufvesson, Fredrik ^a   Owall, Viktor ^a   Edfors, Ove ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

5G; indoor measurement; outdoor measurement; software defined radio; system design; TDD; testbed

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MIMO SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; SOFTWARE RADIO; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSIONS;

BASE STATION ANTENNAS; INDOOR MEASUREMENT; OUTDOOR MEASUREMENTS; PROCESSING CAPABILITY; PROCESSING COMPLEXITY; PROOF-OF-CONCEPT TESTS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; SYSTEM-LEVEL REQUIREMENTS;

TESTBEDS;

EID: 85028742982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2705561     Document Type: Article

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