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Analysis of Massive MIMO technology for next generation wireless communication systems
Thesis in external company
keywords 5G, MASSIVE MIMO
Reference persons MARINA MONDIN
External reference persons Marco Caretti, Bruno Melis
marco.caretti@telecomitalia.it, bruno1.melis@telecomitalia.it
Telecom Italia S.p.A. - Wireless Access Innovation
Via G. Reiss Romoli, 274 – 10148 – Turin (Italy)
+39 011 228 7121
Research Groups SSPC Team
Thesis type SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION
Description One promising technology for meeting the future bandwidth requirements of next generation wireless communication systems is massive MIMO transmission/reception. Massive MIMO is based on the use of a very large number of antennas that, by focusing energy into smaller regions of space, allow to achieve huge improvements in throughput and radiated energy efficiency.
When used with suitable precoding schemes, massive MIMO systems experience small inter-user and inter-cell interference, and consequently achieve significantly higher throughput than the state of the art MIMO systems. There are several challenges to build massive MIMO systems in practice: integration of large number of antennas in a limited space, synchronization and channel estimation of the users, exploitation of extra degrees of freedom provided by the excess of antennas, power consumption reduction and definition of suitable deployment scenarios. Due to high number of antennas, massive MIMO systems can be more practical for higher frequency channels and for TDD systems thanks to the reciprocity that can be exploited for advanced MIMO algorithms.
The purpose of the thesis is to perform in a first phase a detailed analysis of the massive MIMO technology by considering aspect such as possible transmission techniques and precoding schemes, propagation models, synchronization and channel estimation issues, antenna implementation aspects, etc. In a second phase a specific massive MIMO configuration will be selected and simulated using MATLAB.
See also thesis proposals 2015 - massive mimo.pdf
Required skills Knowledge and experience in MATLAB® programming.
Knowledge of broadband wireless communication systems and MIMO techniques.
Notes For information please contact Prof. Marina Mondin at marina.mondin@polito.it, Ing. Marco Caretti at
marco.caretti@telecomitalia.it and Ing. Bruno Melis at bruno1.melis@telecomitalia.it
Deadline 14/01/2016
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