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无处不在的无小区大规模MIMO通信

Ubiquitous Cell-Free Massive MIMO Communications

Giovanni Interdonato, Emil Björnson, Hien Quoc Ngo, Pål Frenger, Erik G. Larsson

摘要:

自20世纪70年代第一个蜂窝网络试用以来,我们见证了一场令人难以置信的无线革命。从1G到4G,大规模的流量增长是通过更宽的带宽、精细的无线电接口和网络密度的组合来管理的,即增加每个站点的天线数量。由于其成本效益,后者的贡献最大。大规模MIMO(多输入多输出)是一种关键的5G技术,它使用大规模天线阵列来提供非常高的波束成形增益和用户的空间复用,从而提高频谱和能量效率。它构成了一个集中的解决方案,以增加网络的密度,其性能受到其以小区为中心的设计中固有的小区间干扰的限制。相反,无处不在的无小区大规模MIMO指的是实现以用户为中心的相干传输以克服蜂窝网络中的小区间干扰限制并提供附加宏分集的分布式大规模MIMO系统。这些特征与大规模MIMO设计中固有的系统可扩展性相结合,将无处不在的无小区大规模MIMO与先前的协调分布式无线系统区分开来。在本文中,我们研究了这种有前途的技术的巨大潜力,同时解决了实际部署问题,以处理来自信号协处理的增加的后/前传输开销。

英文摘要:

Since the first cellular networks were trialled in the 1970s, we have witnessed an incredible wireless revolution. From 1G to 4G, the massive traffic growth has been managed by a combination of wider bandwidths, refined radio interfaces, and network densification, namely increasing the number of antennas per site. Due its cost-efficiency, the latter has contributed the most. Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a key 5G technology that uses massive antenna arrays to provide a very high beamforming gain and spatially multiplexing of users, and hence, increases the spectral and energy efficiency. It constitutes a centralized solution to densify a network, and its performance is limited by the inter-cell interference inherent in its cell-centric design. Conversely, ubiquitous cell-free Massive MIMO refers to a distributed Massive MIMO system implementing coherent user-centric transmission to overcome the inter-cell interference limitation in cellular networks and provide additional macro-diversity. These features, combined with the system scalability inherent in the Massive MIMO design, distinguishes ubiquitous cell-free Massive MIMO from prior coordinated distributed wireless systems. In this article, we investigate the enormous potential of this promising technology while addressing practical deployment issues to deal with the increased back/front-hauling overhead deriving from the signal co-processing.

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