TY - JOUR
T1 - Preliminary results on 3D channel modeling: From theory to standardization
AU - Kammoun, Abla
AU - Khanfir, Hajer
AU - Altman, Zwi
AU - Debbah, Méroúane
AU - Kamoun, Mohamed Amine
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the French pole de competitivite SYSTEM@TIC within the project 4G in Vitro and by the ERC Grant 305123 MORE.
PY - 2014/6
Y1 - 2014/6
N2 - Three dimensional (3D) beamforming (also elevation beamforming) is now gaining interest among researchers in wireless communication. The reason can be attributed to its potential for enabling a variety of strategies such as sector or user specific elevation beamforming and cell-splitting. Since these techniques cannot be directly supported by current LTE releases, the 3GPP is now working on defining the required technical specifications. In particular, a large effort is currently being made to get accurate 3D channel models that support the elevation dimension. This step is necessary as it will evaluate the potential of 3D and full dimensional (FD) beamforming techniques to benefit from the richness of real channels. This work aims at presenting the on-going 3GPP study item 'study on 3D-channel model for elevation beamforming and FD-MIMO studies for LTE' and positioning it with respect to previous standardization works. © 2014 IEEE.
AB - Three dimensional (3D) beamforming (also elevation beamforming) is now gaining interest among researchers in wireless communication. The reason can be attributed to its potential for enabling a variety of strategies such as sector or user specific elevation beamforming and cell-splitting. Since these techniques cannot be directly supported by current LTE releases, the 3GPP is now working on defining the required technical specifications. In particular, a large effort is currently being made to get accurate 3D channel models that support the elevation dimension. This step is necessary as it will evaluate the potential of 3D and full dimensional (FD) beamforming techniques to benefit from the richness of real channels. This work aims at presenting the on-going 3GPP study item 'study on 3D-channel model for elevation beamforming and FD-MIMO studies for LTE' and positioning it with respect to previous standardization works. © 2014 IEEE.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563582
UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1312.0288v2
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905013350&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/JSAC.2014.2328152
DO - 10.1109/JSAC.2014.2328152
M3 - Article
SN - 0733-8716
VL - 32
SP - 1219
EP - 1229
JO - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
JF - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IS - 6
ER -