Subarray Based Multiuser Massive MIMO Design Adopting Large Transmit and Receive Arrays

This paper describes a subarray based low computational design method of multiuser massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. In our previous works, use of large array is assumed only in transmitter, but this study considers the case both of transmitter and receiver sides are equipped with large array antennas. For this aim, receive arrays are also divided into several subarrays, and the former proposed method is modified for the synthesis of a large array from subarrays in both ends. Through computer simulations, it is verified that the performance of the proposed method is degraded compared with the original approach, but it can achieve the improvement in the aspect of complexity, namely, significant reduction of the computational load to the practical level.

Authors:

• Tetsuki Taniguchi
• Yoshio Karasawa

Keywords:

• Massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO)
• multiuser
• large array
• subarray
• zero forcing
• singular value decomposition.

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