Massive Antenna Arrays with Low Front-End Hardware Complexity: An Enabling Technology for the Emerging Small Cell and Distributed Network Architectures

preprint2014arXivOpen access

Abstract

This paper presents the current state-of-the-art of massive antenna array architectures with significant front-end hardware savings, as an enabler for future small and powerful cell nodes that will be able to carry massive MIMO technology. Radio frequency (RF) hardware architectures with a single power amplifier are reviewed, compared, and found superior to conventional MIMO implementations in terms of cost, dissipated heat, and physical size. This progress on the RF-side allows to merge the two competing cellular concepts of virtual and massive MIMO into a hybrid approach of remote radio heads with massive MIMO arrays.

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