On the performance of double resolution ADC receivers for massive MIMO relaying systems

Sahar Said (), Waleed Saad (), Mona Shokair and Sayed El-Araby ()
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Sahar Said: Atomic Energy Authority
Waleed Saad: Menoufia University
Mona Shokair: Menoufia University
Sayed El-Araby: Atomic Energy Authority

Telecommunication Systems: Modelling, Analysis, Design and Management, 2020, vol. 73, issue 2, No 1, 143-154

Abstract: Abstract High power consumption and hardware cost are the two challenges for practical massive MIMO systems. One promising solution is to employ low resolution analog to digital converter (ADC). In this paper, massive MIMO relaying systems are investigated with double resolution ADCs at base station receiver, where some antennas are connected to low resolution ADCs, while the rest of the antennas are connected to high resolution ADCs. Closed form expression for uplink spectral efficiency (SE) is derived using the maximum ratio combining receiver assuming perfect channel state information. Some asymptotic analysis is discussed to explore the effects of system parameters on SE such as; the number of receive antennas, ADC quantization bits, user transmit power and the rate of high precision ADC in double resolution ADC structure. Moreover, energy efficiency with some system parameters is studied. It is shown that the performance wastage owing to low precision ADCs can be recompensed by growing the number of receive antennas $$ \varvec{N} $$N, following a logarithmic scaling law instead of increasing the transmit power at both of source and relay. The double resolution ADCs can achieve a better tradeoff between power consumption and SE when using 4 quantization bits. By using only around 30 antennas, the double resolution ADCs achieves its optimal energy efficiency for selecting system parameters.

Keywords: Spectral efficiency; Double resolution ADC; Energy efficiency; Massive MIMO; Relay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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