Samsung demonstrates 5G FD-MIMO Basestation Prototype with FPGA-based 3D Beamforming at NI Week

by Steve Leibson - Xcell Daily, Aug. 04, 2015 – 

Today during the keynote session at NI Week 2015 in Austin, Texas -- Gary Xu, who is Samsung's Director of the Wireless Communications Lab in Richardson, Texas -- gave the first public demonstration of a prototype 5G FD-MIMO basestation capable of serving multiple users with high data rates. The demo consisted of a small basestation unit with a MIMO antenna array and four National Instruments USRP RIO software-tunable RF transceivers emulating four 5G handheld terminals.

Without Samsung's new 3D beamforming algorithms switched on, the four terminals barely managed 2Mbps operation and the basestation could not support all four at once. Switching on the 3D beamforming and multiuser interference cancellation algorithms brought all four emulated handsets online and immediately bumped the 5G data throughput above 25Mbps.

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