Spectral efficiency of massive MIMO systems with D2D underlay

Abstract

This paper studies the interplay between massive MIMO and device-to-device (D2D) networking in a single cell setting, where cellular uplink resources are shared by D2D. The spatial positions of underlaid D2D transmitters are modeled by a Poisson point process. All the transmissions (both cellular and D2D) are SIMO (i.e., single-input multiple-output) with the base station (BS) having a very large antenna array. Assuming perfect channel state information at the receivers, we study cellular and D2D spectral efficiency. In the asymptotic regime where the number of BS antennas goes to infinity, we find that the received signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of any cellular user increases unboundedly and the effects of noise, fast fading, and the interfering signals from the other co-channel cellular users and the infinite D2D transmitters vanish completely. In the non-asymptotic regime, we derive simple analytical lower bounds for both cellular and D2D spectral efficiency, which allow for efficient numerical evaluation.