Massive MIMO and Beamforming for 5G

Exercises

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Exercise 1
1 What is MIMO?

a) Transmission and reception on multiple spatially separated

layers (spatial mux)

b) Multiple antennas on both tx and rx

c) Multiple antennas at the base station

d) Beamforming

2 What is spatial mux?

a) Multiple layers that each uses the whole SNR of the channel

b) Multiple layers that share the SNR of the channel

c) Tx diversity and Rx diversity used simultaneously

d) It is the same as MIMO

3 What does 4x2 MIMO support?

a) Up to 2 layer spatial mux

b) Up to 4 layer spatial mux

c) 4 tx and 2 rx antennas

d) 2 tx and 4 rx antennas

4 What is MIMO capable of?

a) Spatial mux

b) Beamforming

c) Tx diversity

d) Rx diversity

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5 At a certain position, a terminal has 10 dB SNR with one

antenna at the base-station. How large is the max rate
increase when using:

a) 8 antennas without SMUX (only classical beamforming or

diversity) compared to only one antenna?

b) 8 antennas with spatial multiplexing compared to only one

antenna?

Exercise 2

1 What is true about the antenna gain of dipole(s)?

a) One single dipole has a gain of 2.15 dBd

b) One single dipole has a gain of 2.15 dBm

c) One single dipole has a gain of 2.15 dBi

d) An array of 10 stacked dipoles have a gain of approx. 10

dBi

e) An array of 10 stacked dipoles have a gain of approx. 10

dBd

f) An array of 10 stacked dipoles have a gain of approx.

12.15 dBi

2 Free space path loss is:

a) Frequency dependent (by square)

b) Frequency dependent (proportional)

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c) Distance dependent (by square)

d) Distance dependent (proportional)

e) Frequency independent

3 To succeed with spatial multiplexing the elements should be:

a) Co-pol and placed around 0.7 λ from each other

b) X-pol or co-pol placed far from each other

c) Stacked vertically and tapered

4 How many layers does a 4 column x-pol array with 0.7 λ

between columns typically support?

a) 1

b) 2

c) 4

d) 8

5 Estimate the directivity of this array antenna:

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Exercise 3
1 The Doppler effect may give rise to:

a) Delay spread

b) Time dispersion

c) The “Bath tub” spectrum

d) The PDP (Power Delay Profile)

2 Which two propagation phenomena directly impacts the

coherence time?

a) Delay spread

b) Coherence bandwidth

c) Doppler spread

d) Flat fading

e) Angular spread

3 A high angular spread results in:

a) Narrower distance between fading dips

b) Longer distance between fading dips

c) Easier to achieve uncorrelated antennas

d) Harder to achieve uncorrelated antennas

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Exercise 4
1 What is mmW?

a) Microwave radio frequencies

b) Radio frequencies between 30-300 GHz

c) A unit for power at microwave frequencies

2 mmW propagation compared to lower frequency propagation is

best described by:

a) Larger delay spread and less Doppler shift

b) Lower delay spread and higher coherence bandwidth

c) Less reflections and higher doppler shifts

d) Possible to achieve low path loss thanks to high antenna gains

3 Estimate which numerology should be chosen if the max UE

speed is 20 m/s in an urban radio channel at 28 GHz. Assume
that one symbol per slot is used for DMRS.

4 Assuming a terminal speed of 34 m/s, a beamwidth of 10° and a

minimum distance between basestation and terminal of 10 m,
what is the minimum CSI update rate? We can assume that
the radio channel is long term coherent (second order) within
the beam.

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Exercise 5
1 Which “dimensions” are included in spatial multiplexing?

a) Fading

b) Doppler

c) Polarization

d) Direction (antenna pattern)

2 The precoder maps:

a) Physical antenna ports to antenna elements

b) Antenna ports to sub-arrays

c) Layers to antenna ports

d) Transport blocks to layers

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Exercise 6
1 What is the benefit with CSI-RS compared to CRS?

a) CSI-RS supports more antenna ports than CRS

b) CSI-RS has higher density than CRS

c) CSI-RS can be beamformed

d) It provides less overhead when many antenna ports are used

2 What is true about 3GPP Rel 13?

a) DMRS was introduced

b) Beamformed CSI-RS was introduced

c) Non-beamformed CSI-RS was introduced

d) FD-MIMO was introduced

3 What is CSI class A?

a) Non-precoded CSI-RS

b) Beamformed CSI-RS

c) Reciprocity CSI

d) Sub-band CQI

e) High resolution CQI using 6 bits instead of 4

4 What is CSI class B?

a) Non-beamformed CSI-RS

b) Beamformed CSI-RS

c) Reciprocity CSI

d) Sub-band CQI

e) High resolution CQI using 6 bits instead of 4

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a. How many ports can be used for horizontal

beamforming in this array?

b. How many ports can be used for vertical

beamforming?

c. How would you suggest to build a better array for UMa

with the same number of ports?

Exercise 7
1 Which CSI acquisition method is most suitable for large
antenna arrays (TDD)?

a) Non-beamformed CSI-RS

b) Beamformed CSI-RS

c) CSI feedback

d) Reciprocity CSI

2 Which CSI acquisition method does not rely on that the UE

supports the very latest standard?

a) Non-beamformed CSI-RS

b) Beamformed CSI-RS

c) CSI feedback

d) Reciprocity CSI

3 Which CSI acquisition method is most suitable for FDD with

quite many antenna ports?

a) CSI feedback

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b) Non-beamformed CSI-RS

c) Beamformed CSI-RS

d) Reciprocity CSI

4 Idle mode mobility measurements uses, at least:

a) CSI-RS

b) SS-blocks

c) PTRS

d) DMRS

5 Connected mode mobility measurements uses, at least:

a) CSI-RS

b) SS-blocks

c) PTRS

d) DMRS

6 Layer 3 mobility relies on:

a) Beam Management

b) Beamforming

c) RRC measurements and events based on e.g. CSI-

RS

d) Handover procedure

e) Beam switch

f) Beam tracking

7 L1/L2 mobility relies on:

a) Beam Management

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b) Beamforming

c) RRC measurements and events based on e.g. CSI-

RS

d) Handover procedure

e) Beam switch

f) Beam tracking

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Exercise 8
8 What are the benefits with digital beamforming?:

a) At high bandwidths, the internal interface rates are lower than

with analog BF

b) Frequency Domain Scheduling and beamforming is possible

c) At high bandwidths, the computational load on DBB is lower

than with analog BF

d) Since analog BF only works for TDD, digital BF must be used

for FDD

9 What are the benefits with processing in beam space

compared to element space?

a) Less processing load in the UE

b) Higher SNR of the reference signals

c) Can handle more UEs

d) Less feedback load

e) Can handle more antenna ports

10 Place the text on the right line

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