Statistical analysis of a measured MIMO channel

In this paper we discuss an approach to a rigorous statistical analysis of a measured indoor MIMO channel. The channel characteristics such as outage capacity and channel gain distributions, transmit and receive correlations, and the frequency response are statistically analysed under the constraint of limited data available. We also compare the measured channel to the known analytical MIMO channel models in terms of the mean and outage capacity distributions. As the result, we show, in a statistically rigorous way, that the measured channel is a nondegenerate frequency-selective Rayleigh MIMO channel with significant TX and RX correlations.