Impact of receive amplifier signal coupling on MIMO system performance

Author

Morris, Matthew L. ; Jensen, Michael A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA

Volume

54

Issue

5

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1678

Lastpage

1683

Abstract

This paper uses a detailed model of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems to explore the impact of signal coupling in the receiver front end on communication capacity. The model is applied to assess the performance of a MIMO system with two transmit and receive antennas in a simulated multipath environment for different amplifier coupling levels. The results show that in practical scenarios where simple impedance matching techniques are used, the circuit coupling can reduce the signal-to-noise ratio at the receiver and therefore degrade the achievable MIMO capacity.

Keywords

MIMO systems; amplifiers; antenna arrays; coupled circuits; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; MIMO systems; amplifier signal; circuit coupling; impedance matching techniques; multiple input multiple output systems; receive antennas; receiver front end; signal-to-noise ratio; transmit antennas; Antenna arrays; Circuit simulation; Coupling circuits; Degradation; Electromagnetic coupling; MIMO; Receiving antennas; Scattering parameters; System performance; Transmitting antennas; Amplifier noise; coupled circuits; electromagnetic coupling; multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TVT.2005.853467

Filename

1542583