Abstract
The theoretical analysis of downlink massive MIMO usually assumes the ideal Gaussian channel matrix with asymp- totic orthogonality of channel vectors associated with different users, since it can provide the favorable propagation condition. Meanwhile, recent experiments have shown that massive MIMO channels between a certain user and massive base station antennas appear the spatial common sparsity (SCS) in both the time domain and angle domain. This motivates us to investigate whether realistic sparse massive MIMO channels could provide the favorable propagation condition, and reveal the capacity gap between massive MIMO systems over realistic sparse channels and that under the ideal Gaussian channel matrix assumption. This paper theoretically proves that channel vectors associated with different users in massive MIMO over realistic sparse channels satisfy the asymptotic orthogonality, which indicates that the favorable propagation condition can also be provided. Moreover, the simulation results confirm the theoretical analysis.
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