Abstract
The study on 5G massive MIMO (maMIMO) systems has garnered a lot of research interest. Several research works are ongoing and some of which include, the development of mathematical models, performance evaluation, algorithm development and basic prototyping work. However, the framework for a unified simulation platform and methodology has not been established. The need for a massive MIMO simulation platform that can be used for comparative study and analysis purpose of different deployment scenarios of maMIMO systems is envisaged. Hence, in this paper, a framework for massive MIMO simulation platform (MMSP) for 5G cellular systems is proposed. To achieve this, key research areas related to massive MIMO were identified from the literature and a taxonomy which consists of three non-overlapping branches: (1) System configuration, (2) System processing and (3) System analysis is advocated. Preliminary results are presented using a developed prototype from the proposed framework.
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This research is supported by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) in Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) through the HiCOE grant (R.J130000.7809.4J209). The grant is managed by Research Management Centre (RMC) at UTM.
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Elijah, O., Abdul Rahman, T., Leow, C.Y. (2017). A Proposed Framework for Massive MIMO Simulation Platform - 5G Systems. In: Mohamed Ali, M., Wahid, H., Mohd Subha, N., Sahlan, S., Md. Yunus, M., Wahap, A. (eds) Modeling, Design and Simulation of Systems. AsiaSim 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 751. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6463-0_9
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