Coverage and Capacity Analysis for Football Player's Bodycam with Cell-Free Massive MIMO

Conference paper (2023)

Authors

Rizqi Hersyandika Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Marco Rossanese NEC Laboratories Europe
Andra Lutu Telefonica Research
Miao Yang Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Twente
Q. Wang Embedded Systems - EEMCS
Sofie Pollin Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Research Group
Embedded Systems (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 Rizqi Hersyandika, Marco Rossanese, Andra Lutu, Miao Yang, Q. Wang, Sofie Pollin
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops57953.2023.10283510
Sports Coverage Massive MIMO Cell-free Channel aging Private 5G
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Research Group

Embedded Systems

Abstract

This paper studies a promising use case of a private 5G network for the sports industry: wearable bodycams and sensors in a football match. This use case requires a reliable and dedicated massive MIMO network to provide uniform coverage with a high capacity in the whole pitch area. The coverage of co-located and distributed (cell-free) massive MIMO, differing in the configuration of base station antenna placement inside the stadium, are evaluated through ray tracing using a 3D stadium model and players' mobility dataset. The results give insight into how distributed antennas inside the stadium should be deployed to enhance the uniform coverage of moving wearable devices. Besides that, the uplink capacity performance and the impact of channel aging on the capacity are also evaluated. The results demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of different base station antenna distribution strategies in terms of coverage, capacity and channel aging impact.