EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 1 Main parameters of the four mandatory IMT-Advanced test environments

From: The promise of downlink MU-MIMO for high-capacity next generation mobile broadband networks based on IEEE 802.16 m

	Urban microcell (UMi)	Urban macrocell (UMa)	Rural macrocell (RMa)
Layout	Hexagonal grid	Hexagonal grid	Hexagonal grid
Inter-site distance	200 m	500 m	1732 m
Channel model	Urban micro model	Urban macro model	Rural macro model
Carrier frequency	2.5 GHz	2 GHz	800 MHz
User speed	3 km/h	30 km/h	120 km/h

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