Transmit Antenna Selection Strategies in Correlated Fading MIMO Channels

Author

Wang Jun ; Chen Hong ; Deng Shaoping ; Yao Zhoushi

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. of Space Microwave Technol., Xi´an Inst. of Space Radio Technol., Xi´an, China

fYear

2009

fDate

24-26 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper studies the performance of transmit antenna selection algorithms in spatially correlated fading MIMO channels. The antenna subset is selected based on maximizing the channel capacity. A novel method is proposed to select the optimum set of transmit antennas based on the upper bound on the mean channel capacity. The proposed method based only on the fading correlation and not the instantaneous channel realization. And also its computational complexity is low and tends to be realized. The simulation results show that antenna selection of transmitter can increase the channel capacity of MIMO system by 1 bit/s in a flat fading environment with a rank deficient channel.

Keywords

MIMO communication; channel capacity; computational complexity; correlation methods; fading channels; transmitting antennas; computational complexity; fading MIMO channel capacity; fading correlation; rank deficient channel; transmit antenna selection strategy; Antennas and propagation; Channel capacity; Covariance matrix; Fading; MIMO; Microwave antennas; Microwave technology; Receiving antennas; Space technology; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2009. WiCom '09. 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3692-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3693-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2009.5305757

Filename

5305757