Uplink sum capacity evaluation of multi-user distributed antenna systems

This letter focuses on the simplified sum capacity evaluation for the uplink of a generalized multi-user distributed antenna system (DAS). Based on system scale-up, we derive a good approximation of the sum capacity by generalizing the results from random matrix theory. An iterative method is presented to calculate the unknown parameters in the approximation. The approximation is illustrated to be quite accurate and the iterative method is demonstrated to be quite efficient by Monte Carlo simulations.