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LuMaMi28: Real-Time Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems with Antenna Selection

Date
2021
Academic Conference
IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Authors
MinKeun Chung(Lund University)
MinKeun Chung
Liang Liu
Andreas Johansson
Sara Gunnarsson
Martin Nilsson
Fredrik Tufvesson
Ove Edfors(Lund University)
Zhinong Ying
Olof Zander(Sony Europe, B.V.)
Kamal Samanta
Chris Clifton(Sony Europe, B.V.)
Satoshi Taniguchi
Shinya Morita(Sony Semiconductor Solutions)
Research Areas
Communication

Abstract

MThis paper presents LuMaMi28, a real-time 28 GHz massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) testbed. In this testbed, the base station has 16 transceiver chains with a fully-digital beamforming architecture (with different pre-coding algorithms) and simultaneously supports multiple user equipments (UEs) with spatial multiplexing. The UEs are equipped with a beam-switchable antenna array for real-time antenna selection where the one with the highest channel magnitude, out of four pre-defined beams, is selected. For the beam-switchable antenna array, we consider two kinds of UE antennas, with different beam-width and different peak-gain. Based on this testbed, we provide measurement results for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO performance in different real-life scenarios with static and mobile UEs. We explore the potential benefit of the mmWave massive MIMO systems with antenna selection based on measured channel data, and discuss the performance results through real-time measurements.

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