Research Article

Feedback Overhead in the FDD Downlink Massive MIMO System

Table 2

Compression ratio between the precoding matrix (partial CSI) and the total channel matrix (full CSI) with LZW algorithms in different MMIMO-OFDM configurations. , , and , respectively, stand for the number of antennas at the BS, the number of antennas at each MS, and the number of OFDM subcarriers.

MMIMO-OFDM
Feedback amount without compression in bitsCompression rate of full CSICompression rate of partial CSI

52428880.4686%80.8355%
104857684.8101%85.2493%
209715289.3295%89.5338%
419430491.8439%91.9494%
104857679.1023%80.8941%
209715283.8996%85.0597%
419430488.6253%89.5372%
104857679.2945%80.3640%
209715283.7158%84.6728%
419430488.6832%89.1703%
838860891.4242%91.7698%
209715278.0467%81.0543%