Research Article
Sum Rate Analysis of MU-MIMO with a 3D MIMO Base Station Exploiting Elevation Features
Table 1
Systme parameters.
| Parameter | Details | Value |
| | Number of floors | 3 | | Number of UTs | 24 | | Number of BS antennae | 50 | | Number of UT antennae | 2 | | Distance between BS and the center of the building | 200 m/1000 m | | Radius of building | 100 m | | Height of BS | 30 m | | Height of UT | 1.5 m | | Height of floor | 5 m | | Shadowing fading mean | 4 dB | | Shadowing fading standard deviation | 4 dB | | Path-loss exponent | 4 | | Wall penetration loss | 0.01 (−20 dB) | | Inside loss | | | Maximum antenna gain | 18 dBi | | Half-power beam-width in the azimuth pattern | | | Half-power beam-width in the elevation pattern | | | Azimuth front-to-back ratio | 30 dB | | Tilt side love level | −18 dB | | Fixed orientation angle | |
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denotes the distance from the wall to the indoor UT [2].
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