Diversity Analysis of Millimeter-Wave OFDM Massive MIMO Systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates the diversity gain in mm-Wave massive MIMO systems with distributed antenna subarrays using OFDM, highlighting how system parameters and BICMB influence maximum diversity.

Contribution

It demonstrates that diversity gain depends on system parameters and shows that BICMB can achieve maximum diversity in distributed antenna systems.

Findings

Diversity gain depends on data streams, RAUs, and propagation paths.

BICMB achieves maximum diversity gain.

Large antennas and known CSI are assumed.

Abstract

We analyze the diversity gain for a distributed antenna subarray employing orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) in millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We show that the diversity gain depends on the number of transmitted data streams, the number of remote antenna units, and the number of propagation paths between RAUs. Furthermore, we show that by using bit-interleaved coded multiple beamforming (BICMB), one can achieve the maximum diversity gain in a distributed antenna subarray system. The assumption in both scenarios is that the number of the antennas at the transmitter and the receiver are large enough and channel state information (CSI) is known at the transmitter and the receiver.