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Massive MIMO --- Tutorial and Research Highlights

Speaker: Erik G. Larsson, Linköping University

Talk Title: Massive MIMO --- Tutorial and Research Highlights

Abstract: The exponential growth rate in wireless traffic will continue and perhaps even accelerate, due to new applications such as augmented reality and internet-of-things. Massive MIMO is a key technology for providing orders of magnitude more data traffic. It works by equipping base stations with large numbers of antennas, simultaneously serving many tens of low-complexity terminals in the same time frequency resource via closed-loop spatial multiplexing (MIMO precoding). Channel estimates are formed on the uplink through operation in time-division duplexing (TDD) and relying on reciprocity of propagation, which makes the operation scalable with respect to the number of antennas and leaves the channel coherence as the only limiting factor. In this talk we will review the basic operation principles of Massive MIMO, and discuss some highlights from recent research.

Biography: Erik G. Larsson is Professor at Linköping University in Sweden. He has previously held positions at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, the University of Florida, the George Washington University (USA), and Ericsson Research (Stockholm). In the spring of 2015 he was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, USA, for four months. His main professional interests are within the areas of wireless communications and signal processing. He has published some 100 journal papers on these topics, he is co-author of the textbook Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003) and he holds many patents on wireless technology. He has been Associate Editor for several IEEE journals, he serves as chair of the IEEE SPS SPCOM technical committee in 2015, as chair of the steering committee for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2014-“2015, and as General Chair of the Asilomar SSC Conference 2015. He received the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Column Award twice, in 2012 and 2014, and the IEEE ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize in Communications Theory in 2015.

Host: Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.edu, EEB 536, x04667

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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