FD-MIMO 2015 - Symposium on Massive MIMO and Full-Dimension MIMO (FD-MIMO) Communications

MIMO with a large number of antennas placed in a 2D array at the base station called e.g. Full Dimension MIMO (FD-MIMO) or 3D MIMO is one technology to increase system capacity in LTE-Advanced systems. The idea is to use both azimuth and elevation to exploit all the spatial dimensions of the MIMO channel. A large number of antenna elements improves the capability of shaping a narrow beam resulting in possibility of enhanced multiuser MIMO operations leading to a preliminary implementation of massive MIMO. As the fourth generation (4G), namely LTE-Advanced, is becoming widely deployed, the research community and mobile industry are now looking into future 5G technologies. Antennas and massive MIMO will play an even more important role in 5G systems both at lower frequencies (< 6 GHz) and at higher frequencies (> 25 GHz).
This symposium aims to bring together leading researchers in both academia and industry to share their views on and to identify the emerging concepts and technologies for MIMO with a large number of antennas in a path to 5G. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
???? Higher order massive MIMO and FD-MIMO for existing cellular frequency bands
?????o 3D channel models
?????o Antenna array architectures
?????o Low complexity beamforming, adaptive beamforming, multiuser beamforming
?????o Efficient channel estimation and feedback
???? Massive MIMO for mmWave bands
?????o mmWave MIMO channel models
?????o Performance analysis for mmWave
?????o Beamforming architectures including hybrid and 1-bit
?????o Channel estimation
?????o Multiuser beamforming strategies
???? Distributed massive MIMO and FD-MMO systems