Joint Impact of Limited Fronthaul and Pilot Length on Payload Data Rate of Cell-Free Massive MIMO

  • Sangwon Jo*
  • , Daesung Yu
  • , Seok Hwan Park
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This work studies the uplink of a cell-free massive MIMO (mMIMO) system with finite-capacity fronthaul links. In particular, the impacts of fronthaul capacity and pilot length on the channel estimation quality as well as the payload data transmission rates are analyzed. To this end, the powers of the quantization noise signals, the estimated channel coefficients and the estimation errors are calculated first. Then, it is followed by the derivation of the achievable payload data transmission rates under two combining schemes: optimal minimum mean squared error (MMSE) and low-complexity maximum-ratio combining (MRC) schemes. Numerical results show how the average sum-rate of the system is affected by the system parameters such as the fronthaul capacity, uplink signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and the pilot length.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICUFN 2023 - 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages386-388
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9798350335385
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event14th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2023 - Paris, France
Duration: 2023.07.42023.07.7

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN
Volume2023-July
ISSN (Print)2165-8528
ISSN (Electronic)2165-8536

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2023
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period23.07.423.07.7

Keywords

  • Cell-free massive MIMO
  • finite-capacity fronthaul
  • imperfect CSI

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Computer Science & Information Systems
  • Data Science

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