Analysis of massive MIMO system performance in Rician fading channel

This review paper studies the performance of massive MIMO uplink system over Rician fading channel. The performance is measured in terms of spectral efficiency versus number of base station antennas using three schemes of linear detection, maximum-ratio-combining (MRC), zero forcing receiver (ZF), and minimum mean-square error receiver (MMSE). The simulation results show that the spectral efficiency increases significantly with increasing the number of base station antennas. Also, the spectral efficiency with MMSE is better than that with ZF, and the latter is better than that with MRC. In addition, the spectral efficiency decreases with increasing the fading parameter.