Massive MIMO for 5G

Dear Colleagues,

Massive MIMO (or called large-scale MIMO) technologies will play a key role in the implementation of 5G systems and beyond. The massive MIMO's potential goes much further beyond that of previous systems by adding a much higher capacity while at the same time expanding the freedom degrees in the system design and optimization, due to the high number of antennas employed on the base station and mobile devices. The “massive” number of antennas brings drastic improvements in throughput and efficiency, along with more complex designs to coordinate MIMO operations, but also new freedom degrees for the system’s design that can be explored to maximize the energy, capacity, and coverage of further 5G systems and beyond.

This Special Issue accordingly calls for recent advances related to massive MIMO technologies that cover all signal processing, energy-efficient techniques, security, and implementation aspects. Topics of interest in this Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:

• Transmitter and receiver techniques for mMIMO;
• mMIMO architectures;
• Low energy/complexity implementations (analog/digital mMIMO, low resolution DAC/ADC, strongly NL amplifiers, etc.);
• Channel estimation in mMIMO;
• Resource allocation in mMIMO;
• mMIMO techniques for positioning and source localization;
• mMIMO for energy harvesting;
• mMIMO evolution (large intelligent surfaces, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, intelligent reflexive surfaces, etc.);
• Physical security in mMIMO;
• Proof-of-concept (PoC) and trials.

Prof. Dr. Paulo Montezuma-Carvalho
Guest Editor

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