Massive MIMO can dramatically improve capacity and spectral efficiency. However, it is not very clear whether it can significantly improve the signal blockage problem that exists in single antenna systems. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the human body on indoor massive MIMO channels, using practically measured channel data for a 32x8 massive MIMO system in a complex office environment. We introduce a parameter of Power Imbalance (PI) indices to estimate the wide-sense none-stationarity in multiple domains and another parameter of Channel Popularity Indices (CPI) to predict the popularity of MIMO channel. We find that in most cases, the presence of the human body still has a non- negligible negative impact. It decreases the ergodic capacity by about 8% and increases the path loss exponent by 1. In average, the ergodic capacity for NLOS channels are 15% higher than that for LOS.


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    Title :

    Influence of Human Body on Massive MIMO Indoor Channels


    Contributors:
    Cui, Peng-Fei (author) / Zhang, J. Andrew (author) / Lu, Wen-Jun (author) / Guo, Y. Jay (author) / Zhu, Hong-Bo (author)


    Publication date :

    2019-04-01


    Size :

    16709292 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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