Ph.D. Level Courses

Fundamentals of Massive MIMO

Objective

This course will expose the basic operational principles and techniques for analysis of Massive MIMO, the scalable 5G technology.

Instructor

Prof. Erik G. Larsson, ISY/Communication Systems.

Registration

The course is open to students enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Linköping University/ISY. External participants upon request. If you have interest to participate, please register by sending an email to erik.g.larsson@liu.se, by December 18, 2015.

Prerequisites

Good knowledge of wireless and digital communications, information theory, linear algebra, matrix analysis, and probability theory. General mathematical maturity.

Outline

Tentative lecture plan:

1. Overview, myths and realities
2. Mathematical background: circularly symmetric Gaussian variables, Wishart distributions
3. Fading channels. Capacity of scalar, MIMO and multiuser (MAC/BC) channels.
4. Techniques for capacity bounding
5. Analysis of single-cell Massive MIMO systems
6. Analysis of multi-cell Massive MIMO systems
7. Power control
8. Case studies: rural and mobile access
9. Propagation
10. Analysis of MMSE techniques
11. Effects of hardware impairments

In addition, there will be 4-5 homework sessions.

Lectures 1-9 will be given by Erik G. Larsson and lectures 10-11 will be given by Emil Björnson.

Downloadable material

• syllabus with reading and homework
• homework problems
• supplementary notes
• homework problems to lecture 14 (by Emil Björnson)
• homework problems to lecture 15 (by Emil Björnson)

For More Information

Please contact the instructor.

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