Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of reciprocity calibration errors on the downlink spectral efficiency (SE) of multi-user large antenna systems. Specifically, we consider two calibration approaches: (a) global calibration, in which all antennas (can be distributed access-points (APs)) in the system cooperatively perform calibration, and (b) local calibration, wherein only a subset of antennas involved in downlink beamforming performs calibration. We derive the downlink SE considering the use-and-then-forget bound and side-information bound, and then demonstrate that, when downlink pilots are employed (in the case of side-information bound), the global calibration outperforms local calibration for arbitrary calibration topologies.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institutions: Linköping University, University of Electro-Communications
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: Linköpings Universitet, Vetenskapsrådet
OpenAlex ID: W7164813402
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