Bit-Interleaved Coded Multiple Beamforming with Perfect Coding in Massive MIMO Systems

This letter investigates bit-interleaved coded multiple beamforming (BICMB) with perfect coding in millimeter-wave (mm-wave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to achieve both maximum diversity gain and multiplexing gain. Using perfect coding with BICMB enables us to do this. We show that by using BICMB and perfect coding, the diversity gain becomes independent from the number of transmitted data streams and the number of antennas in each remote antenna unit (RAU) at the transmitter and the receiver. The assumption is that the perfect channel state information (CSI) is known at both the transmitter and the receiver and the number of antennas goes to infinity. This latter assumption can be relaxed by a large number of antennas in each RAU, similar to the case for all massive MIMO research. Simulation results show that when the perfect channel state information assumption is satisfied, the use of BICMB with perfect coding results in the diversity gain values predicted by the analysis.