On The Zero-Forcing Receiver Performance For Massive Mimo Drone Communications

We study the uplink ergodic rate performance of the zero-forcing (ZF) receiver in a Massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) enabled drone communication system. Considering a 3D geometric model for line-of-sight (LoS) propagation, approximate but accurate analyses of lower and upper bounds on the uplink ergodic rate with estimated channel state information (CSI) are provided.