Towards Distributed Cell-less MIMO Testbed: An RFNoC Implementation

You, Minglei; Chen, Tianrui; Zheng, Gan

Abstract

In this extended abstract, we will present a novel cell-less multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) testbed design and an initial implementation based on the design. The key objective is to design a flexible and scalable architecture to facilitate the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based beamforming solution, and offload computing extensive algorithms, especially the Channel State Information (CSI) estimation algorithms, to the Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), which is to address the challenge for the local signal processing at the distributed Base Stations (BSs). An initial testbed implementation is presented, which has been evaluated in the lab environment with 2 singleantenna BSs and 2 single-antenna users.

Citation

You, M., Chen, T., & Zheng, G. (2022, June). Towards Distributed Cell-less MIMO Testbed: An RFNoC Implementation. Paper presented at 2022 EuCNC & 6G Summit, Grenoble, France & online

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 2022 EuCNC & 6G Summit
• Conference Location: Grenoble, France & online
• Start Date: Jun 7, 2022
• End Date: Jun 10, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jul 6, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 12, 2022
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/8395706
• Related Public URLs: https://www.eucnc.eu/programme/special-sessions/special-session-5/