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Hardware Distortion Correlation Has Negligible Impact on UL Massive MIMO Spectral Efficiency
Linköping University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Communication Systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5954-434X
Univ Pisa, Italy.
Paris Saclay, France.
2019 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, ISSN 0090-6778, E-ISSN 1558-0857, Vol. 67, no 2, p. 1085-1098Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper analyzes how the distortion created by hardware impairments in a multiple-antenna base station affects the uplink spectral efficiency (SE), with a focus on massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO). This distortion is correlated across the antennas but has been often approximated as uncorrelated to facilitate (tractable) SE analysis. To determine when this approximation is accurate, basic properties of distortion correlation are first uncovered. Then, we separately analyze the distortion correlation caused by third-order non-linearities and by quantization. Finally, we study the SE numerically and show that the distortion correlation can be safely neglected in massive MIMO when there are sufficiently many users. Under independent identically distributed Rayleigh fading and equal signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), this occurs for more than five transmitting users. Other channel models and SNR variations have only minor impact on the accuracy. We also demonstrate the importance of taking the distortion characteristics into account in the receive combining.

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC , 2019. Vol. 67, no 2, p. 1085-1098
Keywords [en]
Massive MIMO; uplink spectral efficiency; hardware impairments; hardware distortion correlation; optimal receive combining
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Signal Processing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-155011DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2877331ISI: 000458804400016OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-155011DiVA, id: diva2:1297514
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Funding Agencies|ELLIIT; CENIIT

Available from: 2019-03-20 Created: 2019-03-20 Last updated: 2019-06-28

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