Performance of UFMC Waveform Design implemented in Massive MIMO system for 5th Generation Wireless Communication Systems

Next generation wireless network are intended to support heterogeneous networks and to meet the major challenge of coping with spectral efficiency (SE) to accommodate larger number of users with reduced complexity and latency. One way is to increase the number of antenna arrays at base station which can provide the multiplexing gain and reduced radio frequency (RF) chains. Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with large number of antennas is designed to increased spectral efficiency. A lot of signal processing challenges in Massive MIMO system are to be deal with to improve spectral efficiency in multi antenna technology. This paper addresses multicarrier signal format named Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier (UFMC) as new waveform in multi-user massive MIMO systems. UFMC is the most promising waveformto be used in 5G and beyond networks as it facilitates multiple users to be served within the same frequency and time slot. In this paper, UFMC modulation with Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) mapping into the massive MIMO system with linear processing is implemented and the result are shown that it achieves higher SE and even high data rates with reduced Bit Error Rate (BER).