ZTE Communications ›› 2017, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (1): 14-22.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2017.01.003

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A Survey of Massive MIMO Channel Measurements and Models

ZHANG Jianhua, WANG Chao, WU Zhongyuan, ZHANG Weite   

  1. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • Received:2016-11-09 Online:2017-02-25 Published:2019-12-24
  • About author:ZHANG Jianhua (jhzhang@bupt.edu.cn) received her Ph.D. degree in circuit and system from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication (BUPT), China in 2003 and now is a professor of BUPT. She has published more than 100 articles in referred journals and conferences and 40 patents. She was awarded “2008 Best Paper” of Journal of Communication and Network. In 2007 and 2013, she received two national novelty awards for her contribution to the research and development of beyond 3G TDD demo system with 100 Mbps@20 MHz and 1 Gbps@100 MHz respectively. In 2009, she received the Second Prize for Science Novelty from Chinese Communication Standards Association for her contributions to ITU-R 4G (ITU-R M.2135) and 3GPP Relay channel model (3GPP 36.814). From 2012 to 2014, she did the 3D channel modeling work and contributed to 3GPP 36.873. She is also the member of the 3GPP 5G channel model for bands up to 100 GHz. Her current research interests include 5G, artificial intelligence, data mining especially in massive MIMO and millimeter wave channel modeling, channel emulator, and OTA test. She is an IEEE senior member and the drafting group (DG) chairwoman of ITU-R IMT-2020 channel model.|WANG Chao (chaowang@bupt.edu.cn) is working for a Ph.D. degree in the Key Lab of Universal Wireless Communications of Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. His current research field is massive MIMO channel measurement and modelling.|WU Zhongyuan (pyboon@foxmail.com) received the B.S. degree from China University of Petroleum, China in 2016. He is currently pursuing a M.S. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China. His research interests include massive MIMO channel measurement and modeling, and wireless channel characteristics in 5G system.|ZHANG Weite (zhangweite1994@foxmail.com) is currently a postgraduate student of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China. He received the B.Sc. degree in communication engineering from Shanghai University, China in 2016. His research interests include propagation models, statistical properties of massive MIMO, and machine learning.
  • Supported by:
    This research is supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(61322110);This research is supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(6141101115);in part by National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology(2015ZX03002008);in part by National Key Technology Research and Development Program(2012BAF14B01);by “863” Program(2015AA01A703);by Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education(201300051100013)

Abstract:

Compared with conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), massive MIMO system with tens or even hundreds of antennas is able to give better performance in capacity and spectral efficiency, which is a promising technology for 5G. Considering this, massive MIMO has become a hot research topic all over the world. In this paper, the channel measurements and models of massive MIMO in recent years are summarized. Besides, the related 256 antenna elements with 200 MHz bandwidth at 3.5 GHz proposed by our team, the verification of rationality of the measurement method, and the spatial evolution of clusters in mobile scenario are provided.

Key words: massive MIMO, channel measurement, channel model, virtual measurement, cluster