A Fair Comparison Between Spatial Modulation and Antenna Selection in Massive MIMO Systems
Bernhard G\"ade, Ali Bereyhi, Saba Asaad, Ralf R. M\"uller

TL;DR
This paper compares antenna selection and spatial modulation in massive MIMO systems, showing that antenna selection generally outperforms spatial modulation unless power efficiency exceeds a certain threshold, after which spatial modulation becomes superior.
Contribution
It provides a quantitative comparison considering implementation constraints, revealing the conditions under which each technique performs best in massive MIMO systems.
Findings
Antenna selection outperforms spatial modulation at lower power efficiencies.
Spatial modulation surpasses antenna selection when power efficiency exceeds a threshold.
The threshold for switching performance depends on the number of receive antennas.
Abstract
Both antenna selection and spatial modulation allow for low-complexity MIMO transmitters when the number of RF chains is much lower than the number of transmit antennas. In this manuscript, we present a quantitative performance comparison between these two approaches by taking into account implementational restrictions, such as antenna switching. We consider a band-limitedMIMO system, for which the pulse shape is designed, such that the outband emission satisfies a desired spectral mask. The bit error rate is determined for this system, considering antenna selection and spatial modulation. The results depict that for any array size at the transmit and receive sides, antenna selection outperforms spatial modulation, as long as the power efficiency is smaller than a certain threshold level. By passing this threshold, spatial modulation starts to perform superior. Our investigations show…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Wireless Communication Technologies · Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization · Antenna Design and Analysis
