Abstract
Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (M-MIMO) is a key technology for 5G networks. Within this research area, new types of deployment are arising, such as the extremely-large regime (XL-MIMO), where the antenna array at the base station (BS) has extreme dimensions. As a consequence, spatial non-stationary properties appear as the users see only a portion of the antenna array, which is called visibility region (VR). In this challenging transmission–reception scenario, an algorithm to select the appropriate antenna-elements for processing the received signal of a given user in the uplink (UL), as well as to transmit the signal of this user during downlink (DL) is proposed. The advantage of not using all the available antenna-elements at the BS is the computational burden and circuit power consumption reduction, improving the energy efficiency (EE) substantially. Numerical results demonstrate that one can increase the EE without compromising considerably the spectral efficiency (SE). Under few active users scenario, the performance of the XL-MIMO system shows that the EE is maximized using less than 20% of the antenna-elements of the array, without compromising the SE severely.
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