Engineering the Eigenspace Structure of Massive MIMO Links Through Frequency-Selective Surfaces
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Abstract
We propose an efficient finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) computational paradigm to estimate the channel matrix of generic massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Working with a practical scenario with 196 base station (BS) elements and 6 equispaced user-equipment devices, we compute the dominant eigenspace for the uplink channel. The full-wave results are compared to conventional ray-tracing methods, with emphasis laid upon observing and understanding the electromagnetic (EM) impact of interelement mutual coupling and spherical wavefront illumination on the wireless MIMO channel properties. In particular, we investigate EM manipulation of massive MIMO channel structures by utilizing, especially, engineered wire-grid frequency-selective surfaces placed in the vicinity of the BS massive MIMO array. Using the in-house FDTD code, we demonstrate the capability of such passive structures to redistribute the illumination Poynting vector magnitude over the BS array aperture, as well as modifying the dominant eigenspace at certain design frequencies. This letter demonstrates the advantage of the synergy between rigorous EM analysis and stochastic communication theories and techniques, with expected applications in emerging wireless technologies (5G and beyond).
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