MU-MIMO in LTE Systems

<p/> <p>A relatively recent idea of extending the benefits of MIMO systems to multiuser scenarios seems promising in the context of achieving high data rates envisioned for future cellular standards after 3G (3rd Generation). Although substantial research has been done on the theoretical...

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Main Authors: Kov&#225;cs Istv&#225;nZ, Badic Biljana, Balraj Rajarajan, Vivier Guillaume, Horv&#225;th P&#233;ter, Ghaffar Rizwan, Kaltenberger Florian, Knopp Raymond, Nguyen HungT, Duplicy Jonathan, Tandur Deepaknath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2011-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Online Access:http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/496763
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Summary:<p/> <p>A relatively recent idea of extending the benefits of MIMO systems to multiuser scenarios seems promising in the context of achieving high data rates envisioned for future cellular standards after 3G (3rd Generation). Although substantial research has been done on the theoretical front, recent focus is on making Multiuser Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MUMIMO) practically realizable. This paper presents an overview of the different MU-MIMO schemes included/being studied in 3GPP standardization from LTE (long-term evolution) to LTE Advanced. MU-MIMO system concepts and implementation aspects have been studied here. Various low-complexity receiver architectures are investigated, and their performance assessed through link-level simulations. Appealing performance offered by low-complexity interference aware (IA) receivers is notably emphasized. Furthermore, system level simulations for LTE Release 8 are provided. Interestingly, it is shown that MU-MIMO only offers marginal performance gains with respect to single-user MIMO. This arises from the limited MU-MIMO features included in Release 8 and calls for improved schemes for the upcoming releases.</p>
ISSN:1687-1472
1687-1499