Abstract
Millimeter wave MIMO combines the benefits of compact antenna arrays with a large number of elements and massive bandwidths, so that fully digital beamforming has the potential of supporting a large number of simultaneous users with {\it per user} data rates of multiple gigabits/sec (Gbps). In this paper, we develop an analytical model for the impact of nonlinearities in such a system, and illustrate its utility in providing hardware design guidelines regarding two key challenges: the low available precision of analog-to-digital conversion at high sampling rates, and nonlinearities in ultra-high speed radio frequency (RF) and baseband circuits. We consider linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) reception for a multiuser MIMO uplink, and provide performance guarantees based on two key concepts: (a) summarization of the impact of per-antenna nonlinearities via a quantity that we term the "intrinsic SNR", (b) using linear MMSE performance in an ideal system without nonlinearities to bound that in our non-ideal system. For our numerical results, we employ nominal parameters corresponding to outdoor picocells operating at a carrier frequency of 140 GHz, with a data rate of 10 Gbps per user.
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