Measured characteristics of the MIMO wireless channel

Author

Wallace, Jon W. ; Jensen, Michael A.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2038

Abstract

This paper presents results from an experimental platform designed to measure the transfer matrix for indoor and outdoor multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels with up to 16 transmit and receive antenna elements. Key aspects of the hardware system and data post-processing techniques are provided. A variety of measurements have been taken with the platform at 2.45 GHz in a typical indoor environment. The collected data have been processed to highlight a variety of channel features, including the statistical distributions of the channel matrix elements and the inherent capacity of the wireless MIMO channel for different numbers of antenna elements, polarizations, and element directivities

Keywords

MIMO systems; UHF antennas; antenna arrays; channel capacity; indoor radio; matrix algebra; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; 2.45 GHz; MIMO wireless channel; capacity; channel matrix elements; element directivities; indoor multiple-input multiple-output channels; outdoor multiple-input multiple-output channels; polarizations; receive antenna elements; statistical distributions; transfer matrix; transmit antenna elements; Antenna measurements; Data processing; Frequency measurement; Hardware; Indoor environments; MIMO; RF signals; Receiving antennas; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.957102

Filename

957102