• DocumentCode
    2431358
  • Title

    Throughput and capacity of MIMO WiMAX

  • Author

    Mehlführer, Christian ; Caban, Sebastian ; García-Naya, José A. ; Rupp, Markus

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Commun. & Radio-Freq. Eng., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    1-4 Nov. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1426
  • Lastpage
    1430
  • Abstract
    In this work, we present physical layer throughput measurement results of a WiMAX link implemented according to IEEE 802.16-2004. The measurements were carried out in an alpine and an urban scenario using the Vienna MIMO Testbed. We compare the measured throughput to three different theoretical bounds: 1) the channel capacity, 2) the mutual information, and 3) a so-called ¿achievable throughput¿ which takes inherent system losses into account. Furthermore, the impact of different channel codes and channel estimators on the measured throughput is analyzed.
  • Keywords
    MIMO communication; WiMax; channel estimation; IEEE 802.16; MIMO WiMAX; Vienna MIMO testbed; achievable throughput; channel capacity; channel codes; channel estimators; mutual information; Channel capacity; Least squares approximation; Loss measurement; MIMO; Mutual information; Physical layer; Testing; Throughput; Transmitters; WiMAX;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signals, Systems and Computers, 2009 Conference Record of the Forty-Third Asilomar Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Pacific Grove, CA
  • ISSN
    1058-6393
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5825-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACSSC.2009.5469848
  • Filename
    5469848