A Comparative Study of Linear Receivers in Spectral Efficiency of Uplink Massive MIMO Systems with Low Resolution ADCs

Abstract

In Massive MIMO systems, Spectral Efficiency mainly depends on the number of antennas used at the Base Station (BS). In 5G, the data requirement is very much high and the increase in Spectral Efficiency is crucial. This letter proposes the uplink Massive MIMO systems with low resolution ADCs architecture. We show that the massive number of antennas compensate the performance degradation of low resolution ADCs and increase the Spectral Efficiency which will be the major requirements in 5G Internet of Things (IOT) networks. We compare the performance of Massive MIMO systems for different receivers with low resolution ADCs