5G Cellular User Equipment: From Theory to Practical Hardware Design

Research and development on the next generation wireless systems, namely 5G, has experienced explosive growth in recent years. In the physical layer, the massive multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) technique and the use of high GHz frequency bands are two promising trends for adoption. Millimeter-...

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Published in:IEEE access Vol. 5; pp. 13992 - 14010
Main Authors: Huo, Yiming, Dong, Xiaodai, Xu, Wei
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.01.2017
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
5G mobile communication
Algorithms
Batteries
beamforming
Cellular communication
Circuit design
Computer architecture
distributed phased array
Frequencies
Hardware
massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)
Millimeter waves
millimeter-wave (mmWave)
MIMO
MIMO (control systems)
Mobile handsets
Phased arrays
R&D
Radio frequency
Reconfigurable control systems
Research & development
Signal processing
spectral efficiency
system-on-chip (SoC)
user equipment (UE)
Wireless communication
ISSN:2169-3536, 2169-3536
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Summary:Research and development on the next generation wireless systems, namely 5G, has experienced explosive growth in recent years. In the physical layer, the massive multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) technique and the use of high GHz frequency bands are two promising trends for adoption. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands, such as 28, 38, 64, and 71 GHz, which were previously considered not suitable for commercial cellular networks, will play an important role in 5G. Currently, most 5G research deals with the algorithms and implementations of modulation and coding schemes, new spatial signal processing technologies, new spectrum opportunities, channel modeling, 5G proof of concept systems, and other system-level enabling technologies. In this paper, we first investigate the contemporary wireless user equipment (UE) hardware design, and unveil the critical 5G UE hardware design constraints on circuits and systems. On top of the said investigation and design tradeoff analysis, a new, highly reconfigurable system architecture for 5G cellular user equipment, namely distributed phased arrays based MIMO (DPA-MIMO) is proposed. Finally, the link budget calculation and data throughput numerical results are presented for the evaluation of the proposed architecture.
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ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2727550