The Research and Implementation of the Hardware Platform for MIMO Channel Measurement

Author

Ji, Lianqing ; Zhao, Jianing ; Huang, Qing

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Millimeter Waves, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a novel approach to the design of MIMO transceiver for channel measurement on the system level. Transmit symbols based on the Chu sequences are adopted in the transmitter. Based on the design, a hardware platform for MIMO channel measurement in indoor environments has been developed to complete the real-time channel measurement for further channel estimation. Using the hardware measurement system, a 2 × 2 MIMO channel has been constructed and the data collection has been obtained successfully in the indoor quasi-static environment. The experiment results show that the platform works well, and the collected data can be used for channel estimation.

Keywords

MIMO communication; channel estimation; indoor communication; radio transmitters; real-time systems; transceivers; Chu sequences; MIMO channel measurement; MIMO transceiver; data collection; further channel estimation; hardware measurement system; hardware platform; indoor environments; real-time channel measurement; transmit symbols; transmitter; Antenna measurements; Baseband; Channel estimation; Correlation; Hardware; MIMO; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2010 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3708-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3709-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2010.5600094

Filename

5600094