Experimental characterization 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

3

fYear

2001

Firstpage

92

Abstract

We report the development of an experimental platform designed to measure the transfer matrix for indoor and outdoor multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channels. The key aspects of the hardware system are presented, including a discussion of measurement issues and data processing approaches. Representative data obtained with the instrument in several indoor environments we presented. These results reveal the large increase in capacity that can be achieved using MIMO architectures coupled with space-time coding implementations.

Keywords

MIMO systems; encoding; indoor radio; multipath channels; MIMO architectures; MIMO wireless channel; channel estimation; data processing; experimental platform; indoor channels; measurement system; multipath environment; multiple input multiple output channels; outdoor channels; space-time coding; transfer matrix measurement; Antenna arrays; Artificial intelligence; Bandwidth; Data processing; Frequency estimation; Hardware; MIMO; Phase estimation; Transfer functions; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2001. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7070-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2001.960039

Filename

960039