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Multiuser MIMO in Distributed Antenna Systems Robert W. Heath Jr. Tao Wu Young Hoon Kwon Anthony C. K. Soong The Univ. of Texas at Austin 7897 Calle Oliva Huawei Technologies Huawei Technologies Austin, TX, USA Carlsbad, CA San Diego, CA, USA Plano, TX, USA rheath@ taowumail@ ykwon@ asoong@ Abstract—Distributed antenna systems (DAS) add remote ra- uate the sum rate for high signal-to-noise ratio, and use the dio units with one or more antennas to enhance coverage and simple form of the expectation of the log of a Gamma random capacity in cellular systems. DAS works by connecting the remote variable. Comparing the simulated sum rates, we observe (i) radio units to the base station via a high bandwidth and low latency link. This paper analyzes multiuser multiple input multi- that multiuser MIMO DAS offers throughputs that increase ple output (MIMO) DAS and compares it with multiuser MIMO with the number of RRUs and the number of antennas at communication without DAS in terms of per-user throughput the remote radio unit and (ii) that peaks in the area spectral and area spectral efficiency. Zero-forcing transmit beamforming efficiency are observed when about half the maximum number is used at the transmitter. To facilitate rapid simulation and of possible users is active. Our results confirm that multiuser design space exploration, approximations of the ergodic rate are proposed for each technique assuming path-loss, small-scale MIMO is a viable transmission strategy for DAS even in the Rayleigh fading, and out-of-cell interference.