Title :
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
fDate :
6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM
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;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th
Conference_Location :
Atlantic City, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7005-8
DOI :
10.1109/VTC.2001.957102
