Effective multi-path vector channel simulator for antenna array systems

Author

Stéphenne, Alex ; Champagne, Benoît

Author_Institution

INRS Telecommun., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

49

Issue

6

fYear

2000

fDate

11/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2370

Lastpage

2381

Abstract

We present a new, computationally efficient simulator for time-varying multi-path (fast fading) vector channels that can be used to evaluate the performance of antenna array wireless receivers at the base station. The development of the simulator is based on the emulation of the spatio-temporal correlation properties of the vector channel. The channel is modeled as a single-input multi-output finite impulse response (FIR) system with time-varying coefficients which are obtained via the application of a space-time correlation shaping transformation on some independent random sequences. The various parts of the new simulator are detailed and channel simulation realizations are presented and commented on

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; correlation methods; digital simulation; fading channels; land mobile radio; multipath channels; random processes; receiving antennas; sequences; time-varying channels; transient response; adaptive antenna arrays; antenna array systems; base station; channel simulation; computationally efficient simulator; fast fading; independent random sequences; mobile radio; multipath vector channel simulator; performance; single-input multi-output FIR system; space-time correlation shaping transformation; spatio-temporal correlation properties; time-varying coefficients; time-varying multipath vector channels; wireless receivers; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Base stations; Computational modeling; Computer vision; Emulation; Finite impulse response filter; Random sequences; Receiving antennas; Time varying systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/25.901906

Filename

901906