Massive Antenna Arrays with Low Front-End Hardware Complexity: An Enabling Technology for the Emerging Small Cell and Distributed Network Architectures
Networking and Internet Architecture
2014-07-30 v1 Information Theory
math.IT
Abstract
This paper presents the current state-of-the-art of massive antenna array architectures with significant front-end hardware savings, as an enabler for future small and powerful cell nodes that will be able to carry massive MIMO technology. Radio frequency (RF) hardware architectures with a single power amplifier are reviewed, compared, and found superior to conventional MIMO implementations in terms of cost, dissipated heat, and physical size. This progress on the RF-side allows to merge the two competing cellular concepts of virtual and massive MIMO into a hybrid approach of remote radio heads with massive MIMO arrays.
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@article{arxiv.1407.7733,
title = {Massive Antenna Arrays with Low Front-End Hardware Complexity: An Enabling Technology for the Emerging Small Cell and Distributed Network Architectures},
author = {Vlasis I. Barousis and Mohammad A. Sedaghat and Ralf R. Müller and Constantinos B. Papadias},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7733},
year = {2014}
}
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10 pages, 4 figures