Scalable Distributed Massive MIMO Baseband Processing

Explore a groundbreaking conference talk on scalable distributed massive MIMO baseband processing for modern mobile networks. Delve into the challenges of softwarizing radio access networks (RAN) and learn about Hydra, a novel system designed to parallelize massive MIMO baseband processing while minimizing inter-server communication overhead. Discover how this innovative approach leverages hardware features in modern commodity radios to support larger MIMO configurations than ever before. Gain insights into the future of 5G technology and beyond as the speakers discuss their evaluation results, demonstrating Hydra's ability to handle 150*32 massive MIMO configurations using just three servers.

NSDI '23 - Scalable Distributed Massive MIMO Baseband Processing