The Distributed MIMO Scenario: Can Ideal ADCs Be Replaced by
Low-resolution ADCs?
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Jide Yuan, Shi Jin, Chao-Kai Wen, Kai-Kit Wong
2017
Abstract
This letter considers the architecture of distributed antenna system, which
is made up of a massive number of single-antenna remote radio heads (RRHs),
some with full-resolution but others with low-resolution analog-to-digital
converter (ADC) receivers. This architecture is greatly motivated by its high
energy efficiency and low-cost implementation. We derive the worst-case uplink
spectral efficiency (SE) of the system assuming a frequency-flat channel and
maximum-ratio combining (MRC), and reveal that the SE increases as the number
of quantization bits for the low-resolution ADCs increases, and the SE
converges as the number of RRHs with low-resolution ADCs grows. Our results
furthermore demonstrate that a great improvement can be obtained by adding a
majority of RRHs with low-resolution ADC receivers, if sufficient quantization
precision and an acceptable proportion of high-to-low resolution RRHs are used.
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