Experimental Field Trials on MU-MIMO Transmissions for High SHF Wide-Band Massive MIMO in 5G

The field trial results for massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) transmission at 28 GHz with 500 MHz bandwidth are reported in this paper. In this experiment, hybrid beamforming with block diagonal precoding is employed, in which channel state information is acquired by uplink sounding assuming channel reciprocity in a time division duplex system. 8-user MU-MIMO scenarios with various user distributions are considered, and the downlink transmission performance and propagation channel characteristics are evaluated. The trial results show that digital precoding improves the system performance and that over 20 Gbps total throughput can be achieved for a variety of user distributions. The performance of the precoding is evaluated in terms of eliminating inter-user interference.

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