Description
Multi-user massive MIMO enables orders of magnitude higher spectral efficiency than non-spatial techniques, increasing channel capacity and enabling the next generation of wireless communications. This thesis presents hardware design, assembly, and testing of Hydra, a real-time, multi-user massive MIMO system. Hydra consists of a base station and user equipment constructed with commercial, off-the-shelf components, and addresses implementation and scalability issues with current massive MIMO systems by demonstrating hardware-efficient distributed beam-forming at mm-wave carrier frequencies.