Research Article

2D Active Antenna Array Design for FD-MIMO System and Antenna Virtualization Techniques

Table 1

System level simulation of antenna array architectures. Throughput gain compared to the baseline design of 4TX antennas.

Antenna array type Throughput gain (over baseline 4TX)
Cell avg. Cell edge

Config. 1 (0.5)
 X-pol2.4x4.15x
 Alt.-pol3.3x5.5x
Config. 2 (2)
 X-pol3.5x5x
 Alt.-pol

Our implementation.