How Wireless Dumb Devices Could Attain High Data Rates Thanks to Smart Massive MIMO Networks
Conference: WSA 2019 - 23rd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas
04/24/2019 - 04/26/2019 at Vienna, Austria
Proceedings: WSA 2019
Pages: 8Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Phan-Huy, Dinh-Thuy (Wireless Technology Evolution Orange Labs Networks Châtillon, France)
Wesemann, Stefan (Next Generation Wireless Systems Nokia Bell Labs Stuttgart, Germany)
Sehier, Philippe (Physical Layer Research Nokia Bell Labs Nozay, France)
Abstract:
For the first time, we present and evaluate the performance of a communication system between a dumb device and a smart massive multiple input multiple output (M-MIMO) antenna at the network side. The dumb device simply transmits and receives a single carrier waveform and uses a simple single tap equalizer, without any channel coding. At the network side, a transmit space-time matched filter is used to deliver the data to the device, in downlink, through a nearly single tap (effective) channel. Still at the network side, a receive space-time matched filter is used to receive data from the device, in uplink. A performance evaluation study based on indoor and outdoor M-MIMO channel measurements show that antenna arrays of 64 antenna elements are smart enough to deliver at least 18 Mbits/s and up to 72 Mbits/s, with a bit-error-rate (BER) below 10-4, to dumb devices in both uplink and downlink directions. Future works will focus on implementation challenges.