Massive MIMO for 5G Deployment

Henrik Asplund received his M.Sc. degree from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1996 and joined Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden, in the same year. Since then he has been working in the field of antennas and propagation supporting pre-development and standardization of all major wireless technologies from 2G to 5G. His current research interests include antenna techniques, radio channel measurements and modelling, and deployment options for 5G including higher frequencies. Jonas Karlsson joined Ericsson in 1993. Since then he has held various technical and leader positions in Ericsson covering both radio access research and system management in product development. He is currently an Expert in Multi Antenna Systems at Development Unit Networks. He holds an M.Sc. in electrical engineering and engineering physics from Linköping University, Sweden, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Fredric Kronestedt joined Ericsson in 1993 to work on RAN research. Since then he has taken on many different roles, including system design and system management. He currently serves as Expert, Radio Network Deployment Strategies, at Development Unit Networks, where he focuses on radio network deployment and evolution aspects for 4G and 5G. Kronestedt holds an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Erik Larsson joined Ericsson in 2005. He is currently a researcher working with concept development and network performance for NR with a focus on advanced antenna systems. He holds both an M.Sc. in engineering physics and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, specializing in signal processing, from Uppsala University, Sweden. Sebastian Faxér joined Ericsson in 2014 and currently serves as a strategic product manager within Product Line 5G, where he is responsible for Massive MIMO software solutions. He has more than 150 patents and was the recipient of the 2020 Ericsson Inventor of the Year award for his contributions to the design of the 5G NR standard in the Massive MIMO area. He is also co-author of the book 5G New Radio: A Beam-based Air Interface. Faxér holds an M.Sc. in applied physics and electrical engineering from Linköping University, Sweden David Astely is currently a Principal Researcher with Ericsson Research in the radio area. He received his Ph.D. in signal processing from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1999 and has been with Ericsson since 2001, where he has held various positions in both research and product development. Peter von Butovitsch joined Ericsson in 1994 and currently serves as Technology Manager at Systems & Technology. He has held various positions at Ericsson Research and in RAN system design over the years, and from 1999 to 2014 he worked for Ericsson in Japan and China. He holds both an M.Sc. in engineering physics and a Ph.D. in signal processing from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2016, he earned an MBA from Leicester University in the UK. Peter von Butovitsch has served as the driver and main editor throughout the development of this book. Thomas Chapman is currently working within the radio access and standardization team within the Standards and Technology group at Ericsson. He has been contributing into 3GPP standardisation since 2000 to the whole portfolio of 3GPP technologies including UTRA TDD, WCDMA, HSPA, LTE and NR, and has been deeply involved in concept evaluation and standardization of AAS in RAN4. He holds an MSc (1996) and PhD (2000) in electronic engineering and signal processing from the University of Manchester, UK. Mattias Frenne is currently a Principal Researcher in Multi-antenna Standardization in Ericsson. He holds an M.Sc. (1996) and a Ph.D. (2002) in engineering physics and signal processing respectively, both from Uppsala University, Sweden. Mattias has contributed to the physical layer concept development for both LTE and NR and is acting as a 3GPP standardization delegate in 3GPP RAN WG1 since 2005, mainly covering topics in the multi-antenna area. He was named Ericsson Inventor of the Year in 2016. Farshid Ghasemzadeh received the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden in 1994. He joined Ericsson in 1999 and currently has a position as "Expert in Radio performance" within department of “Standards and Technology”. He has held various position in Ericsson and worked with RAN system design and standardization. Prior to joining Ericsson in 1999, he worked for LGP telecom as specialist in RF and microwave design developing radio products for various standards and technologies. Måns Hagström has worked with Radars and Radios for the last 20 years, doing both hardware and software development for real-time applications. Måns joined Ericsson in 2011. He is currently systems architect and involved in the evolution of AAS radios. In various roles he has been involved in both the high-band mmW and mid-band TDD AAS development at Ericsson. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer science from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Billy Hogan joined Ericsson in 1995. Currently he is the Principal Engineer for AAS technology and strategies within Development Unit Networks where he drives solutions and strategy for AAS in 4G and 5G. Previously he has held various technical and leader positions in Core and Radio Access Network systemization and design. He holds a B.E. in electronic engineering from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and an M. Eng. in electronic engineering from Dublin City University, Ireland. George Jöngren is currently an expert in adaptive multi-antenna technologies at Ericsson. Starting with his Ph.D. studies in 1999, he has two decades of experience working with state-of-the-art techniques in the multi-antenna field. He joined Ericsson in 2005 and has over the years had various roles, including working for eight years as a 3GPP delegate driving Ericsson’s efforts on physical layer multi-antenna standardization. George Jöngren holds a Ph.D in signal processing and an M.Sc. in Electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

1. Introduction 2. Network – current deployments and future requirements Basic technology elements 3. Antennas and wave propagation 4. Antenna arrays and classic beamforming 5. OFDM 6. Multi-antenna technologies 7. mmWave Standardization support 8. 3GPP Physical layer 4G and general 9. 3GPP Physical layer 5G and 6G 10. Radio requirements and regulations Massive MIMO solutions, network deployment and performance 11. Massive MIMO architecture and implementation 12. Massive MIMO hardware configurations and features (including system features) 13. Network and feature performance 14. Network deployment and evolution; antenna configurations and features for different deployments and purposes, frequency use, practical deployment considerations, evolution to 6G. Summary and future outlook 15. Key takeaways / future outlook / path to 6G