Sum Rate Analysis of MU-MIMO with a 3D MIMO Base Station Exploiting Elevation Features

Table 1

Systme parameters.

Parameter	Details	Value
	Number of floors	3
	Number of UTs	24
	Number of BS antennae	50
	Number of UT antennae	2
	Distance between BS and the center of the building	200 m/1000 m
	Radius of building	100 m
	Height of BS	30 m
	Height of UT	1.5 m
	Height of floor	5 m
	Shadowing fading mean	4 dB
	Shadowing fading standard deviation	4 dB
	Path-loss exponent	4
	Wall penetration loss	0.01 (−20 dB)
	Inside loss
	Maximum antenna gain	18 dBi
	Half-power beam-width in the azimuth pattern
	Half-power beam-width in the elevation pattern
	Azimuth front-to-back ratio	30 dB
	Tilt side love level	−18 dB
	Fixed orientation angle

denotes the distance from the wall to the indoor UT [2].