When Is the Achievable Rate Region Convex in Two-User Massive MIMO Systems?

06/19/2018

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by   Zheng Chen, et al.

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This letter investigates the achievable rate region in Massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems with two users, with focus on the i.i.d. Rayleigh fading and line-of-sight (LoS) scenarios. If the rate region is convex, spatial multiplexing is preferable to orthogonal scheduling, while the opposite is true for non-convex regions. We prove that the uplink and downlink rate regions with i.i.d. Rayleigh fading are convex, while the convexity in LoS depends on parameters such as angular user separation, number of antennas, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).