The effect of oscillator phase noise on the sumrate performance of a frequency selective multi-user multipleinputmultiple-output (MU-MIMO) uplink channel is studiedunder imperfect channel state information. A maximum ratiocombining detection strategy is employed by the base station(BS) (having a large antenna array of M elements), and ananalytical expression of a lower bound on the sum capacity ofthe system is derived. It is shown that an array power gainof O(pM) is achievable. It is also observed that phase noiseeffectively limits the fraction of the time used for informationtransmission and the number of users in the system. Finally itis concluded that, phase noise degrades the performance butdoes not eliminate the fundamental gains of a Large ScaleAntenna System (LSAS), i.e., power efficiency and high sumrate performance with low complexity receiver processing.
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