From mMIMO to xMIMO: A Unified Design for Spatial Wideband Effect Mitigation

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Abstract

Large antenna apertures and/or ultra wideband (UWB) transmission engender the spatial wideband (SWB) effect, resulting in reduced array gain, spectral efficiency (SE), and higher bit error probability. To this end, this letter proposes a novel double-delay-phase precoding (DDPP) architecture that can be realized with a small number of true time delays (TTDs), mitigating the negative impact of the SWB effect. The numerical results, over the massive and extreme multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) use cases and in the frequency range (FR)2 and FR3, showcase the effectiveness of the proposed DDPP in terms of the array gain, SE, and bit error rate (BER).

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1723-1727
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Volume14
Issue number6
Early online date25 Mar 2025
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 105001105620
ORCID /0000-0002-0738-556X/work/184885142
ORCID /0000-0002-1315-7635/work/184886963
ORCID /0000-0001-7075-8990/work/184887494

Keywords

Keywords

  • Beam squint, FR3, extreme MIMO (xMIMO), frequency range (FR)2, massive MIMO (mMIMO), sixth generation (6G), spatial wideband (SWB) effect, terahertz (THz)