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Statistical Analysis of 5G Channel Propagation using 

MIMO and Massive MIMO Technologies 

Zaid Ahmed Shamsan 

Electrical Engineering Department 
College of Engineering 

Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) 

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia  
shamsan@ieee.org  

 

 

 

Abstract—Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and massive 

MIMO technologies play a significant role in mitigating five 

generation (5G) channel propagation impairments. These 

impairments increase as frequency increases, and they become 

worse at millimeter-waves (mmWaves). They include difficulties 

of material penetration, Line-of-Sight (LoS) inflexibility, small 

cell coverage, weather circumstances, etc. This paper simulates 

the 5G channel at the E-band frequency using the Monte Carlo 

approach-based NYUSIM tool. The urban microcell (UMi) is the 

communication environment of this simulation. Both MIMO and 
massive MIMO use uniformly spaced rectangular antenna arrays 

(URA). This study investigates the effects of MIMO and massive 

MIMO on LoS and Non-LoS (NLoS) environments. The 

simulations considered directional and omnidirectional antennas, 

the Power Delay Profile (PDP), Root Mean Square (RMS) delay 

spread, and small-scale PDP for both LoS and NLoS 

environments. As expected, the wide variety of the results showed 
that the massive MIMO antenna outperforms the MIMO 

antenna, especially in terms of the signal power received at the 
end-user and for longer path lengths. 

Keywords-MIMO; massive MIMO; millimeter-waves; channel 

propagation; path loss exponent; RMS delay spread; received 

power  

I. INTRODUCTION  

Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and 
Millimeter-waves (mmWaves) are two key technologies of 5G 
wireless systems that deliver high data rates, support multiple 
users, and provide very low latency. The use of mmWaves for 
the 5G systems is still in the experimental stage. Classically, 
the mmWaves belong to the frequency spectrum from 30 to 
300GHz [1]. Some frequency bands of the first part of this 
frequency spectrum, up to 100GHz (as well as the traditional 
wireless mobile generation bands) are dedicated to the 5G 
system because they offer a huge amount of unutilized or 
under-utilized spectrum frequencies, compared to the lower 
bands. The E-band (71-76 and 81-86GHz) [2, 3] can be 
represented by 73GHz and it is one of the main frequencies 
allocated to 5G systems. It is well recognized that the spectral 
bandwidth is directly proportional to the amount of transmitted 
data rate. However, using the mmWaves for mobile 
communication exposes several propagation challenges, e.g. 

signal attenuation, coverage area limitations, and, most notably, 
high penetration losses. Due to the higher frequency of 
mmWaves, free space loss is much higher especially when an 
isotropic antenna is used, and many materials cause very high 
absorption loss, while diffraction is less noticeable. 
Consequently, mmWave signal goes under high blockage, and 
most of the time propagation tends to be Line-of-Sight (LoS) -
based [4]. To mitigate mmWave disadvantages, several 
technologies have been introduced, such as small cell coverage, 
beamforming, MIMO and massive MIMO antennas, etc. 
Massive MIMO-OFDM has been considered as one of the most 
desired technologies for broadband wireless systems and is 
worldwide recognized as the 5G wireless communication basis. 
It is more flexible and adaptable to stay active, especially if 
developed for a high number of antennas or massive MIMO [1, 
3]. 

This paper will discuss the 73GHz channel and signal 
propagation using MIMO and massive MIMO technologies in 
urban microcell area. In [5], the 73GHz frequency band proved 
to be power-efficient and robust against atmospheric variations. 
Both omnidirectional and directional channel models were used 
due to the fact that they are widely adopted by the industry and 
researchers for proper designing of wireless systems and 
antenna arrays in supporting massive MIMO systems by 
employing spatial diversity and/or beamforming gain 
respectively [6, 7]. For this purpose, the Monte Carlo approach-
based NYUSIM simulator (NYUSIM v3.0) was utilized to 
apply MIMO-Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing 
(OFDM) and massive MIMO technologies and generate 
Channel Impulse Responses (CIRs) from both omnidirectional 
and directional channel models at 73GHz [8-10]. This 
simulator can be also used in the THz band [11]. 

II. MIMO AND MASSIVE MIMO TECHNOLOGIES 

Generally, three methods can be planned to improve the 
wireless network efficiency, namely deploying extreme access 
points, using wide frequency spectrum, and increasing the 
spectral efficiency. The foreseen wireless systems will utilize 
small base station coverage and thus will require by default 
many access points to cover all considered areas. Also, new 
spectral bands will be exploited to support the efficiency of the 
wireless network. However, the spectral efficiency always 

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needs to be maximized in a given frequency band. The spectral 
efficiency equals to the total bits that can be sent per second in 
each unit of bandwidth (bits/s/Hz) which ultimately contributes 
in improving the throughput (Th) [12]: 

�� � �� ���    (1) 
where ��  is the bandwidth (Hz) and ��  is the spectral 
efficiency (bits/s/Hz). A recognized technique to raise the 
spectral efficiency is to exploit the concept of multiple 
antennas at the transceivers. Communication with multiple 
antennas leads to send out multiple streams which in turn cause 
multiplexing gain that significantly improves the capacity of 
communication. Therefore, the use of MIMO antennas as a 
diversity method is able to improve the communication 
reliability. The useful characteristics of the MIMO technology 
allowed its incorporation to the new generation wireless 
systems (4G, 5G, and 6G). Figure 1 shows the MIMO 
technology concept for point to point link. 

 

 
Fig. 1.  MIMO technology for point to point link (up- and down-link).  

In each channel of the MIMO technology, one vector is 
transmitted and another is received. If an additive white 
Gaussian noise (AWGN) at the receiver (Rx) exists, Shannon 
theory gives the following equations for the spectral efficiency 
of the link (in b/s/Hz): 

										
�� � log� ���
���
� ��

��    (2) 


�� � log� ���
���
� �

���     

																		� log� ���
���
�
����    (3) 

where � is the number of BS antennas, K is the number of 
terminal antennas, �  is an � ��  matrix for the channel 
frequency response between the Base Station (BS) array and 
the terminal array, and ��� and ��� are the signal-to-noise ratios 
(SNRs) for the uplink and downlink, which are proportional to 
the corresponding total radiated powers. The spectral efficiency 
values in (2) and (3) involve that the Rx must know �, however 
the transmitter (Tx) does not require knowing �. If the Tx 
attains Channel State Information (CSI), the performance will 
be enhanced. The spatial multiplexing gain has been exploited 
and the MIMO was developed to the multiuser MIMO (MU-
MIMO), where the number of users is concurrently functioned 
by one BS supported by multiple MIMO antennas [13-16]. By 
equipping the BS with more antennas, more degrees of 
freedom can be provided and therefore, more users can 
concurrently connect in the same resource of time-frequency. 

Consequently, a large sum throughput can be attained. When a 
BS is enhanced with 100 or more antennas concurrently (MU-
MIMO system) to serve tens (or more) of users in the same 
time-frequency resource, this system is termed as a Massive 
MIMO, very large MU-MIMO, hyper-MIMO, or full-
dimension MIMO [12]. Precisely, in contrast, MU-MIMO 
systems support a large number of wireless broadband 
terminals using a large number of BS antennas whereas, 
massive MIMO is a type of MU-MIMO system where antennas 
(hundreds/thousands) concurrently serve wireless broadband 
terminals (tens/hundreds) in the same frequency resource as 
shown in Figure 2. Assuming that terminals in MU 
MIMO/Massive MIMO have a single antenna as shown in 
Figure 2 in which the BS serves K terminals, let � be a matrix 
of �	� 	� matching the frequency response between the BS 
array and the � terminals. The sum spectral efficiencies of the 
up- and down-link are expressed by: 


�� � log�|��  ������|    (4) 

�� � max $%&'

∑ $)*+%),-
log�|��  ����./��|    (5) 

where 0	 �	101,. . . ,5�6	7 , ���  is the uplink SNR per each 
terminal, and ���  is the downlink SNR. The calculation of 
downlink capacity needs a solution of the convex optimization 
problem. The attaining of CSI is essential to (4) and (5). The 
BS must identify the channels in the uplink, and each terminal 
has to be informed its allowed transmission rate individually, 
while in the downlink, the BS and the terminals must have CSI 
[17]. 

 

 
Fig. 2.  Massive MIMO system (up- and down-link).  

III. MODELS OF CHANNEL PROPAGATION 

The NYUSIM simulator uses two main integrated models: 
the free space Path Loss (PL) model and the Statistical Spatial 
Channel Model (SSCM). The Close-In (CI) free space PL 
model used in this paper as shown in (6) is based on Friis’ and 
Bullington’s research work that set wireless propagation 
fundamental principles, where the path loss depends on the 
environment with a reference distance and includes an 
additional attenuation component [18-19]: 

89:;<=,>?@A � 32.4 20log+'<=A 10Flog+'<>?@A 9G  
HI:;    (6) 

where = is the operation frequency (GHz), F denotes the Path 
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between the Tx and Rx, and >'	is the free space reference 
distance, ranging between 1m and 5m (1m in this paper), 
provided that >?@ ≥ >'. The term HI:; represents the Gaussian 
random variable with zero-mean and standard deviation σ in 
dB, while 9G  denotes the atmospheric conditions attenuation 
factor [1, 8], and >?@ is defined as in (6). The adopted model of 
the channel (closed-in path loss) uses a small number of 
parameters compared to that of 3GPP/ITU channel models 
while it can estimate a wide range of microwave and mmWave 
frequencies, physical separation paths, and scenarios with 
better performance, better stability, and fewer parameters. The 
PLE is confidentially relevant to the environment where the 
communication system works. It has different values for 
different PL models which are developed through numerical 
schemes combined with empirical approximations of 
experimental data obtained in channel sounding measurements. 
For instance, for the urban microcell (UMi) scenario and in the 
case of LoS free space environment, the PLE is set to be 2 with 
a shadow fading standard deviation of 4.0dB, whereas these 
two parameters are respectively set to 3.2 and 7.0dB in the 
NLoS environment. In the SSCM model, time clusters and 
spatial lobes are employed to model the omnidirectional CIR, 
and power spectra of both Angle of Departure (AoD) and 
Angle of Arrival (AoA). Time clusters contain multipath 
components moving closely in time, and the ones which arrive 
from different angular directions in a short excess delay time. 
Spatial lobes are the main directions of arrival or departure 
components that arrive or depart within several hundreds of 
nanoseconds. In the SSCM model, multiple paths within a time 
cluster can arrive at unique pointing angles that can be detected 
by directional antennas with high gain [1, 18]. In fact, the 
number of clusters of the mmWave signals should not be large 
due to the fact that this can cause an imprecise spectral 
efficiency prediction. Thus, the number of time clusters is in 
the range 1–6, whereas the spatial lobes are between 2 and 5 
[18]. 

IV. COMMUNICATION SCENARIOS WITH MIMO AND MASSIVE 
MIMO 

Several studies on MIMO and massive MIMO have been 
conducted in order to develop and improve the technology of 
communication [1, 20-22]. The proposed communication 
scenario is a communication link in an urban microcell system 
at 73GHz using 4×4 MIMO and 64×64 massive MIMO 
technologies. It is assumed that both the Tx and Rx are 
equipped with 4 MIMO or 64 massive MIMO antenna 
elements comprising uniformly spaced rectangular antenna 
arrays (URA) with �K  and �L  antenna elements in the 
elevation domain and azimuth domain, in that order [23]. The 
adopted antenna patterns are based on Table 7.3-1 of [24]. For 
OFDM technique, each subcarrier has an MIMO channel 
coefficient which will be generated through paramount 
parameters of each solvable multipath component. The MIMO 
channel coefficients �M,N,�<=A between the �O Tx antenna and 
the k

th
 Rx antenna for the subcarrier = are expressed through 

the following equation [1, 8]: 

�M,N,�<=A = ∑ PN,Q,MRSTU,),V × RWS�XYZU,),VM ×
RWS�X�[N \]^_`U,),Va ×RWS�X�bQ\]^_cU,),Va    (7) 

where d  represents the def  resolvable solvable multipath 
component, α represents the amplitude of the channel gain, Φ is 
the phase of the multipath component, g is the time delay, >7 
and >h denote the antenna element spacing at the Tx and Rx 
respectively, whereas i and j represent the azimuth AoD and 
AoA correspondingly. It is assumed that the number of carriers 
is 1601 (the frequency interval between adjacent subcarriers is 
500kHz and the bandwidth is 800MHz, therefore, 
(800MHz/500kHz) + 1 = 1601 subcarriers). 

V. THE MAIN PARAMETERS 

In Table I, the Tx and Rx antenna types, simulation 
conditions, propagation parameters, and system components 
are tabulated. The results of applying the assumed values in 
Table I will be discussed in the next section. 

TABLE I.  KEY PARAMETERS AND SIMULATION CONDITIONS [1, 8, 9, 
18, 25, 26] 

Parameter Value Parameter Value 

Operation frequency (GHz) 73 Tx and Rx antenna gain (dBi) 24.9 

No. of Tx and Rx antenna 

elements in Massive 

MIMO 

64×64 
No. of Massive MIMO 

antenna elements per row 
8 

System bandwidth (MHz) 800 Tx and Rx array type URA 

No. of Tx and Rx antenna 

elements in MIMO 
4×4 

Tx and Rx antenna elevation 

HPBW 
8.6

o
 

Tx and Rx antenna azimuth 

HPBW 
10.9

o
 

No. of MIMO antenna 

elements per row 
2 

Tx power (dBm) 30 Tx and Rx antenna spacing 0.5k 
Barometric pressure (mbar) 1013.25 

OFDM subcarrier spacing 

(kHz) 
500 

Humidity 50% No. of OFDM subcarriers 1601 

Temperature 20
o
C Polarization Co-Pol 

 

VI. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 

Figures 3(a)-(d) explain the substantial difference in the 
omnidirectional and directional path loss at different 
environments and number of antenna elements at 300m 
separation distance between the Tx and Rx and operation 
frequency of 73GHz. These figures are produced using the 
NYUSIM tool, where the PL, PLE(n), and directional shadow 
fading standard deviation are demonstrated for 4 LoS and 
NLoS cases. Each Figure illustrates the PL, n, and directional 
standard deviation. It can be seen that the Tx antenna gain and 
Rx antenna gain for the urban microcell are assumed to be the 
same (24.9dBi). From Figure 3(a), it can be noticed that the 
omnidirectional path loss at 300m is roughly 123.5dB using 
MIMO in LoS environment, while it increases to 164.4dB with 
MIMO in NLoS environment at the same distance (Figure 
3(b)). This means that there is a very large difference of 40.9dB 
in the PL in the case of LoS compared to NLoS. On the other 
hand, the omnidirectional PL massive MIMO is approximately 
116.6dB in LoS environment, while it increases to 153.3dB in 
NLoS environment at the same distance as displayed in Figures 
3(c) and 3(d) respectively. The difference between the two 
environments is approximately 36.7dB. Table II shows a 
comparison among the 4 cases of the systems used in the 
simulations. It can be stated that the PL in the case of MIMO in 
NLoS is the largest, while the lowest PL occurs using massive 
MIMO in LoS environment. Table II shows the difference in 
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(a) 

 

(b) 

 

(c) 

 

(d) 

Fig. 3.  Omnidirectional and directional path loss Tx-Rx separation 

distance for an urban microcell scenario (a) 4×4 MIMO LoS, (b) 4×4 MIMO 

NLoS, 64×64 Massive MIMO LoS, (d) 64×64 Massive MIMO NLoS. 

TABLE II.  DIFFERENCE IN OMNIDIRECTIONAL PL AMONG THE 
SYSTEM SCENARIOS 

Description Difference in omnidirectional PL (dB) 

Systems 
MIMO- 

LoS 

MIMO- 

NLoS 

Massive 

MIMO-LoS 

Massive 

MIMO-NLoS 

MIMO-LoS ---- -40.9 6.9 -29.8 

MIMO-NLoS 40.9 ---- 47.8 11.1 

Massive MIMO-LoS -6.9 -47.8 ---- -36.7 

Massive MIMO-NLoS 29.8 -11.1 36.7 ---- 

 

To study the effect of the directional antenna compared to 
the omnidirectional antenna, the worst case of MIMO system is 
considered to investigate its impact on the RMS delay spread. 
This scenario is shown in Figure 4 for the LoS environment in 
which the maximum separation distance between the Tx and 
the Rx is 0.5km. The directional antenna clearly seams that it 
causes less RMS delay spread. Figure 4 shows that the 
maximum RMS delay spread is 2.8ns when the Rx is located at 
400m whereas the minimum RMS delay spread is about 0.3ns 
at a separation distance of 250ns and 450ns from the Tx. In 
contrast, the omnidirectional antenna causes grater RMS delay 
spread for all cases. The maximum RMS delay spread for the 
omnidirectional antenna is 24ns at 100m whereas the minimum 
value of the antenna, 9.5ns, is at 500m. These results reveal 
that the RMS delay spread resultant from omnidirectional 
antenna is always greater than that of the directional antenna. 
Moreover, Figure 4 indicates that there is very small fluctuation 
in the delay generated by the directional antenna, however, the 
omnidirectional antenna generates a high RMS delay 
fluctuation. The same scenario is shown in Figure 5 for the 
MIMO system to investigate the impact of the NLoS 
environment on the RMS delay spread. The RMS delay spread 
values in Figure 5 are higher than that in Figure 4. In addition, 
the fluctuations of RMS delay spread values in the NLoS 
environment are higher than that in the LoS environment which 
creates more stable delay. Furthermore, this result is similar for 
either omnidirectional or directional antenna type, the general 
effect of NLoS does not change. For example, the directional 
RMS delay shown in Figure 6 for NLoS is almost higher than 
that of LoS except very few cases where the RMS delay is 
higher than that of NLoS by a very small value of RMS delay 
spread. This is true due to the fact that the nature of NLoS 
environment is filled with several reflectors, scatters, diffracted 
materials, etc.  

 

 
Fig. 4.  Omnidirectional and directional RMS delay spread for a LoS urban 

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Fig. 5.  Omnidirectional and directional RMS delay spread for a NLoS 

urban microcell scenario. 

 
Fig. 6.  Directional RMS delay spread for MIMO system in LoS and NLoS 

urban microcell scenario. 

The PLE confidentially describes the environment where 
the Tx and Rx are situated. It is an important parameter to 
indicate the propagation environment nature. In Figure 7, at 
73GHz, the PLE for the MIMO system in omnidirectional LoS 
and NLoS urban microcell scenario is shown. Its values in LoS 
environment range between 2.6 and 1.8 which manifests a 
stronger power profile, while in NLoS environment, its values 
are between 3.1 and 4.6, leading to a weaker power profile. 
Additionally, Figure 7 shows that the PLE is more stable for 
LoS, especially for longer distances between the Tx and Rx, 
whereas less stability is shown for the NLoS case even for 
higher communication distances. The received power for 
MIMO and massive MIMO systems is illustrated in Figure 8. 
This Figure indicates that the received power is inversely 
proportional to the distance between Tx and Rx. As the 
distance increases, the path attenuation loss also increases 
which causes the signal power to diminish. On the other hand, 
for smaller separation distances between Tx and Rx, both 
MIMO and massive MIMO behave in an approximately similar 
way for LoS and NLoS. However, for longer distances, the 
massive MIMO system outperforms the MIMO system because 
the power in the massive MIMO has a very narrower beam 
than in the MIMO system, which means more active antenna 
means, more focused energy, and thus less attenuation. Figure 
8 also shows that the average improvement of the received 
power in massive MIMO compared to MIMO is roughly 14% 
for long distances between 300 and 500m. Furthermore, 
massive MIMO system in LoS provides better performance 
than NLoS. 

 
Fig. 7.  PLE for MIMO system in omnidirectional LoS and NLoS urban 

microcell scenario. 

 
Fig. 8.  Received power for MIMO and massive MIMO systems in 
omnidirectional LoS and NLoS urban microcell scenario. 

 
Fig. 9.  Small scale PDPs at 73GHz in UMi LoS with 300m terrestrial 

separation and 4×4 MIMO system. 

Figures 9-12 show the small scale Power Delay Profile 
(PDP) of the omnidirectional antenna using MIMO-LoS, 
MIMO-NLoS, massive MIMO-LoS, and massive MIMO-
NLoS systems respectively. In Figures 9 and 10, it can be seen 
that there are 4 groups of omnidirectional components received 
at the Rx antenna and separated according to a specific value of 
the wavelength λ. The antenna spacing of Tx or Rx is adjusted 
to be 0.5λ even in the case of massive MIMO. The 4 groups are 
caused by the fact that the Rx uses 4 antenna elements for a 
4×4 system. From Figures 9 and 10 it is also observed that the 
received power (dBm) decreases as propagation time delay 
RMS increases and that there is a noticeable gap between 
different multipath components as RMS delay spread increases. 
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the 64×64 system, as illustrated in Figures 11 and 12, it can be 
realized that there are 64 component groups at the Rx antenna.  

 

 

Fig. 10.  Small scale PDPs at 73GHz in UMi NLoS with 300m terrestrial 

separation and 4×4 MIMO system. 

 
Fig. 11.  Small scale PDPs at 73GHz in UMi LoS with 300m terrestrial 

separation and 64×64 Massive MIMO system. 

 
Fig. 12.  Small scale PDPs at 73GHz in UMi NLoS with 300m terrestrial 

separation and 64×64 Massive MIMO system. 

As a comparison, it is worth noticing that the strongest 
signal power for the 4 systems can be arranged in descending 
order as follows: (i) massive MIMO-LoS (Figure 11), (ii) 
MIMO-LoS (Figure 9), (iii) massive MIMO-NLoS (Figure 12), 
and (iv) MIMO-NLoS (Figure 10). Moreover, in the case of 
NLoS for both MIMO and massive MIMO, it is noticed that 

less number of components in each group will be received at 
the Rx as shown in Figures 10 and 12, due to the fact that in the 
NLoS environment there are many blockage materials that act 
as signal attenuators and add losses to the signal power which 
in turn reaches the Rx with very low power, such that it can not 
be detected. In Figures 9 and 11, there are a lot of components 
in the case of LoS environment because no blockage material 
disturbs the signal power when it travels from the Tx to Rx. 
This environment does not impact highly the signal power, thus 
many components arrive to the Rx with higher magnitude than 
the one in the case of NLoS situation. 

VII. CONCLUSION 

This paper applied the MIMO and massive MIMO 
techniques to analyze the 5G propagation channel at 73GHz in 
an urban microcell scenario. The two systems, 4×4 MIMO and 
64×64 Massive MIMO, have been assumed to examine the 
channel characteristics within two environment types, LoS and 
NLoS. Extensive simulations have been carried out through the 
Monte Carlo approach-based NYUSIM tool. The findings 
showed that the received power in the case of massive MIMO-
LoS has higher magnitude than the other cases. The results also 
showed that for longer distances the massive MIMO 
outperforms the MIMO system due to the fact that using 
massive MIMO leads to more active antenna, which means 
more focused energy and thus less attenuation on the signal. In 
addition, it is revealed that the RMS delay spread and the PLE 
in LoS environment are more stable and suffer less fluctuation 
compared to the NLoS environment. In terms of the received 
power, the average percentage improvement in massive MIMO 
compared to MIMO is roughly 14% for long distances up to 
500m. 

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