Simulation and maximum capacity verification of indoor MIMO antenna systems in a simple multipath-rich environment

The work in this paper shows how to accurately simulate a MIMO system in a simple multipath-rich environment on a physical layer level. The simulator includes an arbitrary antenna pattern and polarization at the transmitter and the receiver. The simulator output is an accurate channel matrix describing the power loss and propagation delay between each transmitter and receiver radiating element for each significant propagation path. Some results are then presented demonstrating the increase of the system data rate for different physical configurations and/or various radiating elements pattern using a MIMO system.