MIMO 2014 - Symposia on Massive MIMO Communications

Recently, large-scale or massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques have been proposed to dramatically improve the performance of wireless networks. Massive MIMO base stations are equipped with a large number of antennas, co-located or distributed around the main base station site, so as to mitigate the effects of noise, fading, and multi-user interference. The key enabler lies in the asymptotic orthogonality properties of the large-dimensional random vectors associated with the massive MIMO channels, and in the large array gains that massive MIMO arrays offer. Additional promises of large-scale antenna systems include (i) lending themselves to low-complexity precoding/detection, (ii) savings in terms of radiated RF energy per transmitted information bit, (iii) enabling hardware-friendly waveform shaping, and (iv) reduced sensitivity to distortions stemming from hardware non-linearities and imperfections. Yet, challenges abound regarding both fundamental performance analysis as well as implementation of massive MIMO systems in real-life scenarios. To foster understanding within this hot topic, original contributions are sought in the following areas:
Channel estimation for massive MIMO systems
Low-complexity precoding and decoding design for massive MIMO systems
Energy-efficient signal processing for massive MIMO systems
Impact and mitigation of hardware impairments in massive MIMO systems
Resource allocation schemes for massive MIMO systems
Distributed large-scale MIMO systems
Network optimization for massive MIMO systems, deployment scenarios
Experiments and measurements for massive MIMO channels
Efficient feedback methods for FDD deployments
Keynote Speakers
Thomas Marzetta (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
Giuseppe Caire (TU Berlin)
Chairs
David Gesbert
Erik G. Larsson
Emil Björnson
TPC
Alexei Ashikhmin
Andre Bourdoux
Giuseppe Caire
Bruno Clerckx
Laura Cottatellucci
Mérouane Debbah
Robert Heath
Michael Joham
Eduard Jorswieck
Florian Kaltenberger
Eleftherios Karipidis
Buon Kiong Lau
David Love
Tom Marzetta
Michail Matthaiou
Ralf Müller
Haralabos Papadopoulos
Luca Sanguinetti
Robert Schober
Christoph Studer
Stephan ten Brink
Fredrik Tufvesson
Wei Yu
Contacts
For all inquiries and questions please contact Dr. David Gesbert at gesbert-AT-eurecom.fr