Space-time correlation of MIMO flat Rayleigh fading channels

Author

Safar, Zoltan ; Ray Liu, K.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In order to analyze and design mobile communication systems having multiple transmit and receive antennas, a statistical multiple-input-multiple-output channel model that characterizes the received signal in both spatial and temporal domains is needed. In this work, we derive a correlation function that takes into account both the time lag, the base station antenna separation, and the mobile terminal antenna separation. The mobile terminal is assumed to be surrounded by a ring of scatterers. The properties of the space-time correlation function in some practical cases are also analyzed.

Keywords

MIMO communication; Rayleigh channels; correlation methods; mobile communication; receiving antennas; statistical analysis; transmitting antennas; MIMO flat Rayleigh fading channels; base station antenna separation; mobile communication systems; mobile terminal antenna separation; receive antennas; space-time correlation function; spatial domains; statistical multiple-input-multiple-output channel model; temporal domains; time lag; transmit antennas; Abstracts; Antennas; Correlation; Fading; Geometry; Joining processes; Receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Conference, 2002 11th European

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

2219-5491

Type

conf

Filename

7072079