Prediction of Multiantenna Propagation Around Regular and Chaflane Street Corners

Author

Molina-Garcia-Pardo, Jose-Maria ; Ibernon-Fernandez, Ruben ; Juan-Llacer, Leandro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Tecnologias de la Informacion y Comunicaciones, Univ. Politecnica de Cartagena

Volume

56

Issue

3

fYear

2007

fDate

5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1461

Lastpage

1467

Abstract

Two microcellular environments, which are the regular and chaflane street corners, are compared using a ray-launching engine based on the uniform theory of diffraction and geometric optics. This paper includes a study on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), K factor, correlation, and multiple-input multiple-output capacity. Two situations, which are the line-of-sight (LoS) and the non-LoS (NLoS), are distinguished and studied separately. In NLoS, the influence of the SNR is higher than the effect of the correlation. However, in LoS, the SNR is comparable in both environments, and correlation determines capacity

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; geometrical optics; geometrical theory of diffraction; microcellular radio; radiowave propagation; SNR; geometric optics; k factor; line-of-sight; multiantenna propagation; multiple input multiple output capacity; ray-launching engine; signal-to-noise ratio; street corners; uniform theory of diffraction; Analytical models; Engines; MIMO; Optical propagation; Optical receivers; Optical scattering; Optical transmitters; Physical theory of diffraction; Radio transmitters; Stochastic processes; $K$ factor; Correlation; MIMO capacity; multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO); regular and chaflane street corners;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2007.895554

Filename

4201059