Impact of BS Antenna Number and Array Geometry on Single-User LTE-A Data Throughputs in Realistic Macro and Pico Cellular Environments

Siming Zhang; Evangelos Mellios; Geoffrey Hilton; Andrew Nix; Timothy Thomas; Amitava Ghosh

doi:10.1109/WCNC.2015.7127684

Impact of BS Antenna Number and Array Geometry on Single-User LTE-A Data Throughputs in Realistic Macro and Pico Cellular Environments

Siming Zhang, Evangelos Mellios, Geoffrey Hilton, Andrew Nix, Timothy Thomas, Amitava Ghosh

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Abstract

This paper evaluates the theoretic performance of
single-user multi-stream beamforming for heterogeneous LTE-A
urban deployments (i.e. Macro and Pico cells). The work
investigates the impact of six different Base Station (BS) antenna
configurations on system level capacity. Our standard
configuration assume 8 BS and 8 User Equipment (UE) antenna
elements. To enhance capacity the BS antenna number was
increased to 12 and 16. A 3D laser-scanned database for the city of
Bristol (UK) was used as input to the 3D channel propagation model along with measured 3D complex voltage and polarimetric antenna patterns for the individual BS and UE antenna elements. More than 50,000 ray-traced Pico and Macro cellular links per BS configuration were investigated to ensure statistical relevance. Our analysis quantifies the capacity of an 8x8 Single-User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (SU-MIMO) solution in realistic urban heterogeneous environments. Results address the system level benefits of increasing the number of BS antenna elements as well as the sensitivity of capacity to vertical and horizontal spatial element configurations.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WCNC.2015.7127684
Publication status	Published - 9 Mar 2015
Event	WCNC 2015 - Hilton, New Orleans, United States Duration: 9 Mar 2015 → 12 Mar 2015

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Conference	WCNC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	9/03/15 → 12/03/15

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Craddock, I. J. (Principal Investigator), Coyle, D. T. (Principal Investigator), Flach, P. A. (Principal Investigator), Kaleshi, D. (Principal Investigator), Mirmehdi, M. (Principal Investigator), Piechocki, R. J. (Principal Investigator), Stark, B. H. (Principal Investigator), Ascione, R. (Co-Principal Investigator), Ashburn, A. M. (Collaborator), Burnett, M. E. (Collaborator), Damen, D. (Co-Principal Investigator), Gooberman-Hill, R. (Principal Investigator), Harwin, W. S. (Collaborator), Hilton, G. (Co-Principal Investigator), Holderbaum, W. (Collaborator), Holley, A. P. (Manager), Manchester, V. A. (Administrator), Meller, B. J. (Other ), Stack, E. (Collaborator) & Gilchrist, I. D. (Principal Investigator)
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