Massive MIMO Has Unlimited Capacity

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 574-590

  Bjornson, Emil ^a   Hoydis, Jakob ^b   Sanguinetti, Luca ^c,d  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

asymptotic analysis; ergodic capacity; Massive MIMO; multi cell MMSE processing; pilot contamination; spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CONTAMINATION; COVARIANCE MATRIX; MIMO SYSTEMS;

COVARIANCE MATRICES; ERGODIC CAPACITY; MULTICELL; PILOT CONTAMINATIONS; RAYLEIGH CHANNEL; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; UPLINK;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 85033704964     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2017.2768423     Document Type: Article

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