BER Simulations of a UWB Spatial Multiplexing System Using an Extended Ray-Tracing Approach

Author

Janson, Malgorzata ; Pontes, Juan ; Sturm, Christian ; Zwick, Thomas

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochfrequenztech. und Elektron. (IHE), Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

9

fYear

2010

fDate

7/2/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1096

Lastpage

1098

Abstract

This letter investigates the performance of a previously published hybrid channel model, where a standard ray-tracing model is combined with a statistical approach for simulation of dense multipath components. In particular, this hybrid method is compared against measurements and conventional ray-tracing simulations with respect to path loss, delay spread, and bit error rates of a 22 multiple-input-multiple output multiband OFDM (MIMO-MB-OFDM) system. It is seen that the hybrid method outperforms the conventional ray-tracing model, delivering very realistic performance estimates.

Keywords

MIMO communication; OFDM modulation; error statistics; ray tracing; space division multiplexing; ultra wideband communication; BER simulation; UWB spatial multiplexing system; bit error rate; delay spread; dense multipath component; extended ray tracing approach; hybrid channel model; multiple input multiple output multiband OFDM system; path loss; Bit error rate; Channel models; Computational modeling; Delay; OFDM; Ray tracing; Signal to noise ratio; OFDM; multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO); ray tracing; ultrawideband communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2010.2093117

Filename

5638597