Field trial on TDD massive MIMO system with polar code

Abstract

A large scale field trial is conducted to investigate the integrated performance of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and polar code, which are two key technologies for 5th generation (5G) mobile system. A more simple and effective algorithm named polarization weight (PW) is used in polar construction. Based on uplink and downlink channel reciprocity in the time-division duplex (TDD) mode, the practical performance of single user (SU) massive MIMO prototype with 64 independent RF channels and 200 MHz bandwidth is investigated under different user equipment (UE) deployments, different layer numbers and moving speeds. Compared to massive MIMO with turbo code, it is shown that significant performance gains can be obtained in TDD massive MIMO system with polar code. For 3 layers scheduled in massive MIMO system with polar code, the maximum user throughput of 1.64 Gbps and spectrum efficiency of 11.64 bit/s/Hz can be achieved. Based on these observations, the feasibility and performance of TDD massive MIMO system with polar code are verified.