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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