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Statistical multiplexing and pilot optimization in fronthaul-constrained massive MIMO

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Cloud-radio access network (C-RAN) has been an attractive solution in the recent years for the future generation mobile networks due to its promising benefits. However, the transport link between the… Click to show full abstract

Cloud-radio access network (C-RAN) has been an attractive solution in the recent years for the future generation mobile networks due to its promising benefits. However, the transport link between the remote radio unit (RRU) and the baseband unit (BBU), known as fronthaul (FH), imposes stringent requirements in terms of data rate, latency, jitter, and synchronization. In the conventional C-RAN, the FH capacity scales linearly with the number of the transmitting antennas, which has posed severe demands on the FH capacity, especially due to emerging 5G technologies such as massive MIMO. However, this can be relaxed by performing precoding at the RRUs instead of centrally at BBU, leading to FH traffic which depends on the number of currently served users. This paper adapts queueing model and spatial traffic model to exploit randomness of the user traffic to achieve statistical multiplexing gain. Through this, we showed that the required FH capacity can be reduced significantly, depending on traffic demand and its statistical properties. Furthermore, we analyzed the impacts of pilots on capacity-constrained FH.

Keywords: massive mimo; traffic; capacity; statistical multiplexing

Journal Title: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Year Published: 2018

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