Research Article

Optimal Low-Power Design of a Multicell Multiuser Massive MIMO System at 3.7 GHz for 5G Wireless Networks

Table 1

Massive MIMO common link budget parameters [14].

Parameters Values

Carrier frequency3.7 GHz
Channel bandwidth20 MHz
Transmit antenna element gain10 dBi
Transmit array antenna feed loss3 dB
Base station total radiated power43 dBm
Number of MS antenna elements1
MS transmit power23 dBm
Receive antenna element gain0 dBi
SNR(7.39,15.4,17.5) dB1
Path loss exponent3.8
Coherence bandwidth210 kHz
Implementation loss3 dB
RX noise figure7 dB
Other losses (shadow, fading)20 dB

Values of signal-to-noise ratio corresponding to [1/2 BPSK, 1/2 QPSK, 1/2 16-QAM], [15].