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1 Thomas L. Marzett a NYU WIRELESS New York University Tandon School of Engineering October 26, 2017 Massive MIMO: It Really Works !

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Thomas L. Marzetta

NYU WIRELESS

New York University Tandon School of Engineering

October 26, 2017

Massive MIMO: It Really Works!

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The future: augmented reality everywhere

Throughputs: 100 – 1000x

Latency: 1/10 – 1/100x

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Timeless truths about wireless

Demand for wireless throughput, both mobile and fixed, will always increase: 10x, 100x, 1000x

The quantity of available electromagnetic spectrum will never increase◦ The best spectrum is below 5 GHz

◦ you can’t lay down more of this!

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Spectrum below 5 Ghz:the most valuable resource in the world!

FCC AWS-3 spectrum auction, January 2015◦ 65 MHz: 1695-1710 MHz, 1755-1780 MHz, 2155-2180 MHz

◦ $41.3 billion

◦ $630/Hz

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Outline

Taxonomy of MIMO

How to distinguish Massive MIMO from impostors

Numerical case studies

New research directions

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Taxonomy of MIMO

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Point-to-Point MIMORoy & Ottersten (1991); Paulraj & Kailath (1993); Foschini (1995); Raleigh & Cioffi (1998); Telatar (1999)

Brilliant invention

But not scalable◦ unfavorable propagation

◦ time required for training grows with system size

◦ disappointing multiplexing gains at cell edges

8x4 link, -3.0 dB SNR

# base station antennas 1 2 4 8

bits/second/Hz 1.51 1.83 2.06 2.19

In every wireless standard, but no further practical development possible

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Multi-User MIMOCaire & Shamai (2003); Viswanath & Tse (2003); Vishwanath, Jindal, & Goldsmith (2003)

Splitting the multi-antenna user into autonomous single-antenna users doesn’t decrease the sum-throughput!

Only single-antenna terminals required

Propagation is almost always favorable

But not scalable in its original form◦ dirty-paper coding/decoding needed

◦ both ends of link have to know channel state information (CSI)

Dual CSI requirement fundamentally unscalable

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Massive MIMOMarzetta (2006); Marzetta (2010)

Add many more base station antennas

CSI isn’t everything: it’s the only thing!◦ channel state information (CSI) only available to the base station

◦ use linear pre-coding/de-coding instead of dirty-paper

◦ users don’t do any signal processing

A practical Massive MIMO system can be much bigger than an orthodox-Shannon system

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Benefits of Massive MIMO

Area spectral efficiency (bits/sec/Hz/square-kilometer)

Scalability

Great service to all users via power control

Energy efficiency (bits/Joule)

Simplicity

A game-changer

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How to Distinguish Massive MIMO From Impostors

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More than just many antennas

Many physically small, low power, individually controlled antennas◦ channel orthogonality

◦ channel hardening

Create parallel flat virtual connections between base station and terminals◦ every terminal uses all time/frequency resources

Utilize measured channels rather than assumed channels

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Downlink data transmission: Maximum-Ratioantennas transmit the weighted message-bearing symbols to arrive in-phase at the intended user & out-of-phase elsewhere

The simplest possible pre-coding, but often very effective

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Uplink data transmission: Maximum-Ratiobase station weights and adds received signals for constructive reinforcement of the transmission from each user

Maximum-ratio permits decentralized signal processing

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TDD slot structure ensures timely CSI:M service-antennas, K users, unlimited M

Mobility limits the number of active users; FDD is a disaster!

TDD slot: training

FDD slot: training

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Why so important to utilize measured propagation?

• Measured channels

• scalable

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of antennas

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• no tightening of array

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• Assumed channels

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• gain eventually grows only

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If channels are assumed, then not Massive MIMO!

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Scientific foundations of Massive MIMO

Using measured channels: Beamforming gain grows linearly with number of antennas, irrespective of the noisiness of the measurements

Frequency-independent power control: Based solely on long-scale (slow) fading; exceedingly effective

Pilot contamination: Ultimate limitation in non-cooperative multi-cell systems

No new mathematics, but a new philosophy!

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Experimental validation of Massive MIMO

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Bell Labs “FutureCell” 64 2 10 20 100

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Numerical Case Studies

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Mitigation of pilot contamination: Pilot re-use Factor 3, 4, 7re-use of pilot sequences causes coherent inter-cell interference

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Dense-urban/suburban cellular accessoptimum pilot re-use factor? maximum-ratio Or zero-forcing?

Dense Urban Suburban

Carrier frequency(GHz) 1.9 1.9

TDD spectral bandwidth (MHz) 20 20

Slot duration (ms) 2 1

User allowed mobility (km/h) 71 142

Uplink radiated power/user (mW) 200 200

Number of service antennas 64 256

Total downlink radiated power (W) 1 1

Active users/cell 18 18

Cell radius (km) .50 2.0

Power control Max/min Max/min

Pilot re-use factor 7 3

Pre-coding/de-coding Maximum-ratio Maximum-ratio

95% likely throughput/terminal Mb/s 4.5 down, 3.1 up 3.2 down, 1.1 up

Max-min power control: uniformly good service everywhere!

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Fixed wireless access: 3000 rural homes, each 20 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up

• 3000 homes randomly distributed over 11.3 km radius

Target down-link throughput: 20 Mbps for every home simultaneously

Target up-link throughput: 10 Mbps for every home simultaneously

10 W total downlink radiated power

1 W uplink radiated power per terminal

50 ms coherence time

800 MHz carrier frequency

20 MHz spectral bandwidth

How many antennas are needed?

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How many antennas are needed?

Zero-forcing: 3200 antennas (11m x 11m)

Maximum ratio: 8200 antennas (17m x 17m)

Total system throughput: 90 Gbs; 4500 b/s/Hz !!!

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New Research Directions

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Massive MIMO extensions

• Unlicensed spectrum operation

• mitigation of non-cooperative interference

Massive MIMO of Things: MMOT◦ huge numbers of things

◦ sporadic service

◦ short-duration messages

Limit behavior of Cell-Free Massive MIMO◦ continuum of access points (holographic MIMO)

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“a mathematical theory of communication”“a physical theory of communication”

is 10x beyond Massive MIMO possible?

Rigorously combine electromagnetic theory with communication theory

Re-examine old concepts◦ Super-directivity

◦ Resonant evanescent wave coupling

Meta-materials (negative dielectric constant) for antenna arrays

What is the minimum power that we have to draw from an antenna? Eb/N0 > ln 2: a purely mathematical construct

Concepts from near-field optical sub-wavelength imaging?

Multidisciplinary effort: wave propagation, electronics, mathematics, …

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Resonant evanescent wave couplingWITRICITY (MIT, 2007): 60 Watts, 2 meters, @ 10 MHz, 40% efficient

Wavelength 30 meters

Near-field dominated by evanescent waves

◦ Exponential decay

◦ Reactive power only

Tuned receiver coil alters boundary conditions, and pulls in power

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Wireless neurosensing: implantable intercranial transmitter

100 7.8 kHz neural channels: 3.2 – 3.8 GHz

Could MIMO handle 1000, 10000, … channels?

What are the ultimate limitations of near-field wireless communication?

Yin, Borton, Aceros, Patterson, & Nurmikko, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Circuits Syst., April 2013

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Massive sensor telemetryContinuous recording of signals from vast numbers of sensors

“Sensor networks” paradigm

◦ Impossible to collect all data wirelessly at one access point

◦ We couldn’t process so much data, even if we could collect it

◦ We have to pre-process and prune data

Massive MIMO changes the game!

◦ We can collect all of the data, intact

◦ Data governed by mathematical physics should be sampled at the Nyquist rate

◦ Big Data easier to process than Small Data (computer tomography, SAR, seismic exploration)

Potential applications of Massive Sensor Telemetry

◦ 3D exploration seismic surveys

◦ Monitoring of volcanoes

◦ Structural health monitoring

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MIMO in nonstandard mediaElectromagnetic propagation isn’t the only way

Still more hyperbolic MIMO

◦ Acoustic waves

◦ Elastic waves

Parabolic MIMO: heat equation

◦ Time scales as the square of distance

◦ Nanocommunications?

Elliptic MIMO: electrical conduction

◦ Updated version of Ground Telegraphy

◦ Lee Deforest, Arnold Sommerfeld, Richard Courant

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Conclusions

Future apps, such as Augmented Reality will require revolutionary developments at the physical layer

Massive MIMO is the only technology that can fully utilize the sub-5 GHz bands

Wireless communications will continue to be a vital research area, BUT future breakthroughs will result from multi-disciplinarycollaborations