Uplink Multi-User MIMO Implementation in OpenAirInterface
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| author | Uçak, Utku Armandoust, Fariba Mehlhose, Matthias Schäufele, Daniel Fink, Jochen Cavalcante, Renato L. G. Stańczak, Sławomir |
| author_facet | Uçak, Utku Armandoust, Fariba Mehlhose, Matthias Schäufele, Daniel Fink, Jochen Cavalcante, Renato L. G. Stańczak, Sławomir |
| contents | Cell-Free Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) and Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) have been active research topics in the wireless communication community in recent years. As an open-source software implementation of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5th Generation (5G) protocol stack, OpenAirInterface (OAI) has become a valuable tool for deploying and testing new ideas in wireless communication systems. In this paper, we present our OAI-based real-time uplink Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) testbed developed at Fraunhofer HHI. As a part of our Cell-Free MIMO testbed development, we built a 2x2 MU-MIMO system using general purpose computers and commercially available software defined radios (SDRs). Using a modified OAI next-Generation Node-B (gNB) and two unmodified OAI user equipment (UE), we show that it is feasible to use Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) channel estimates to compute uplink combiners. Our results verify that this method can be used to separate and decode signals from two users transmitting in non-orthogonal time-frequency resources. This work serves as an important verification step to build a complete Cell-Free MU-MIMO system that leverages time domain duplexing (TDD) reciprocity to perform downlink beamforming over multiple cells |
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| spellingShingle | Uplink Multi-User MIMO Implementation in OpenAirInterface Uçak, Utku Armandoust, Fariba Mehlhose, Matthias Schäufele, Daniel Fink, Jochen Cavalcante, Renato L. G. Stańczak, Sławomir Signal Processing Cell-Free Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) and Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) have been active research topics in the wireless communication community in recent years. As an open-source software implementation of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) 5th Generation (5G) protocol stack, OpenAirInterface (OAI) has become a valuable tool for deploying and testing new ideas in wireless communication systems. In this paper, we present our OAI-based real-time uplink Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) testbed developed at Fraunhofer HHI. As a part of our Cell-Free MIMO testbed development, we built a 2x2 MU-MIMO system using general purpose computers and commercially available software defined radios (SDRs). Using a modified OAI next-Generation Node-B (gNB) and two unmodified OAI user equipment (UE), we show that it is feasible to use Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) channel estimates to compute uplink combiners. Our results verify that this method can be used to separate and decode signals from two users transmitting in non-orthogonal time-frequency resources. This work serves as an important verification step to build a complete Cell-Free MU-MIMO system that leverages time domain duplexing (TDD) reciprocity to perform downlink beamforming over multiple cells |
| title | Uplink Multi-User MIMO Implementation in OpenAirInterface |
| topic | Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09384 |