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Experimental Study of Large-Scale Coordinated Multi-User MIMO for 5G Ultra High-Density Distributed Antenna Systems

Takaharu KOBAYASHI, Masafumi TSUTSUI, Takashi DATEKI, Hiroyuki SEKI, Morihiko MINOWA, Chiyoshi AKIYAMA, Tatsuki OKUYAMA, Jun MASHINO, Satoshi SUYAMA, Yukihiko OKUMURA

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Fifth-generation mobile communication systems (5G) must offer significantly higher system capacity than 4G in order to accommodate the rapidly increasing mobile data traffic. Cell densification has been considered an effective way to increase system capacity. Unfortunately, each user equipment (UE) will be in line-of-sight to many more transmission points (TPs) and the resulting inter-cell interference will degrade system capacity. We propose large-scale coordinated multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (LSC-MU-MIMO), which combines MU-MIMO with joint transmission from all the TPs connected to a centralized baseband unit. We previously investigated the downlink performance of LSC-MU-MIMO by computer simulation and found that it can significantly reduce inter-TP interference and improve the system capacity of high-density small cells. In this paper, we investigate the throughput of LSC-MU-MIMO through an indoor trial where the number of coordinated TPs is up to sixteen by using an experimental system that can execute real-time channel estimation based on TDD reciprocity and real-time data transmission. To clarify the improvement in the system capacity of LSC-MU-MIMO, we compared the throughput measured in the same experimental area with and without coordinated transmission in 4-TP, 8-TP, and 16-TP configurations. The results show that with coordinated transmission the system capacity is almost directly proportional to the number of TPs.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E102-B No.8 pp.1390-1400
Publication Date
2019/08/01
Publicized
2019/02/20
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2018TTP0012
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Technology Trials and Proof-of-Concept Activities for 5G and Beyond)
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Authors

Takaharu KOBAYASHI
  FUJITSU LIMITED
Masafumi TSUTSUI
  FUJITSU LIMITED
Takashi DATEKI
  FUJITSU LIMITED
Hiroyuki SEKI
  FUJITSU LIMITED
Morihiko MINOWA
  FUJITSU LIMITED
Chiyoshi AKIYAMA
  FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.
Tatsuki OKUYAMA
  NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Jun MASHINO
  NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Satoshi SUYAMA
  NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Yukihiko OKUMURA
  NTT DOCOMO, INC.

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