Uplink/Downlink MIMO
June 28, 2011
Juho Lee
Samsung Electronics
juho95.lee@samsung.com
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Table of Contents
• LTE-Advanced Downlink MIMO
• LTE-Advanced Uplink MIMO
• Performance Evaluation
• Real Life Deployment Issues
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DL MIMO Overall Procedure
•PDCCH = Downlink Control
•PDSCH = Downlink Data
•CQI = Channel Quality Indicator
•PMI = Precoding Matrix Indicator
•RI = Rank Iindicator
•ACK/NACK = feedback for Hybrid ARQ operation
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DL Transmission Chain
Identity in LTE-Adv MIMO
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ScramblingModulation mapperLayermapperScramblingModulation mapperlayerscodewordsPrecodingResource element mapperOFDM signal generationResource element mapperOFDM signal generationantenna portslayers
DL MIMO Overview
LTE
LTE-Advanced
(up to 4 TX antennas)
(up to 8 TX antennas)
Spatial
•Closed-loop codebook based precoding
Multiplexing
•Open-loop
Transmit
diversity
•SFBC for 2 TX antennas
•SFBC+FSTD for 4Tx antennas
Closed-loop non-codebook based
precoding
No additional transmit diversity
defined for 8TX antennas
(8 physical antennas virtualized to 2 or
4 logical antennas)
PMI feedback
Yes
No
Closed-loop
Open-loop
Set of precodings at
transmitter
Specified
Not specified
Codebook based
Non-codebook based
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DL MIMO with 8 TX Antennas
• MIMO with 8 Tx antennas
– Peak spectral efficiency up to 30bps/Hz, i.e., 3Gbps @ 100MHz
– Reference signal (=pilot) structure to reduce overhead
• Common CSI-RS for downlink channel quality measurement
– CSI-RS: Channel Status Indicator Reference Signal
• Dedicated demodulation RS
• Note: in LTE, only common RS is used
– Feedback mechanism design
• CQI (Channel Quality Indicator)
• PMI (Precoding Matrix Indicator)
• RI (Rank Indicator)
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MU-MIMO with 8 TX Antennas
• Up to 8 Tx antennas and mostly 2 Rx
antennas at UE
• Favorable to MU-MIMO
• 8Tx MU-MIMO provides
• Both throughput and coverage gain
• Cell edge performance gain of up to 150%
against 4x2 case with 12 UEs/cell
• SU-/MU-MIMO dynamic switching supported
Cell edge user throughput
Sector throughput
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0246810120.050.10.150.20.250.30.350.40.450.55% User Throughput (bps/Hz)# of UEs Baseline-1x2MUBF2x2MUBF4x2MUBF8x2024681012123456789System Throughput (bps/Hz)# of UEs Baseline-1x2MUBF2x2MUBF4x2MUBF8x2
Layer-to-Codeword Mapping
•Maximum two codewords are transmitted to reduce the UL ACK/NACK feedback overhead
•Multiple layers may be mapped to a single codeword depending on the rank value
Number of
layers
Number of
codewords
Number of layers per
codeword
Note
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
1
2
1
2
1
2
2
2
2
2
1
2
(1, 1)
3
(1, 2)
4
(2,2)
(2,3)
(3,3)
(3,4)
(4,4)
Only for retransmitted codeword
Only for retransmitted codeword
Only for retransmitted codeword
Added in LTE-Advanced
Added in LTE-Advanced
Added in LTE-Advanced
Added in LTE-Advanced
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