Dynamic Metasurface Antennas for Uplink Massive MIMO Systems

被引:108
作者
Shlezingere, Nir [1 ]
Eldar, Yonina C. [1 ]
Dicker, Or [2 ]
Yoo, Insang [3 ]
Imani, Mohammadreza E. [3 ]
Smith, David R. [3 ]
机构
[1] Weizmann Inst Sci, Fac Math & Comp Sci, IL-7610001 Rehovot, Israel
[2] Foretellix Ltd, IL-6789140 Tel Aviv, Israel
[3] Duke Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Durham, NC 27708 USA
关键词
Massive MIMO; metasurfaces; antenna design; SYNTHETIC-APERTURE RADAR; METAMATERIAL ELEMENT; ARCHITECTURES; CHANNELS; COMMUNICATION; CAPACITY; DESIGN;
D O I
10.1109/TCOMM.2019.2927213
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communications are the focus of considerable interest in recent years. While the theoretical gains of massive MIMO have been established, implementing MIMO systems with large-scale antenna arrays in practice is challenging. Among the practical challenges associated with massive MIMO systems are increased cost, power consumption, and physical size. In this paper, we study the implementation of massive MIMO antenna arrays using dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs), an emerging technology which inherently handles the aforementioned challenges. Specifically, DMAs realize large-scale planar antenna arrays and can adaptively incorporate signal processing methods such as compression and analog combining in the physical antenna structure, thus reducing the cost and power consumption. First, we propose a mathematical model for massive MIMO systems with DMAs and discuss their constraints compared to ideal antenna arrays. Then, we characterize the fundamental limits of uplink communications with the resulting systems and propose two algorithms for designing practical DMAs for approaching these limits. Our numerical results indicate that the proposed approaches result in practical massive MIMO systems whose performance is comparable to that achievable with ideal antenna arrays.
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页码:6829 / 6843
页数:15
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