Design and test of a HF MIMO system of transmission set up with compact antenna arrays

Author

Ndao, Papa Moussa ; Erhel, Y. ; Lemur, D. ; Oger, M. ; Le Masson, J.

Author_Institution

I.E.T.R., Univ. de Rennes 1, Rennes, France

fYear

2011

fDate

7-9 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper proposes a MIMO 2×2 solution to increase the capacity of HF radio links through the ionospheric channel. A diversity in the transmitted polarizations replaces the classical space diversity and authorizes a compact set up in a context of decametric wavelengths. After a theoretical step of capacity estimation, an HF 2×2 MIMO system has been designed and tested on a 300 km long radio link. The data transfer rate reaches up to 24.09 kbps (in a 4.2 kHz bandwidth) with a good quality of service.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; quality of service; radio links; HF MIMO system; QoS; bandwidth 4.2 kHz; capacity estimation; compact antenna arrays; decametric wavelengths; distance 300 km; ionospheric channel; quality of service; radio links; transmission set up; Bandwidth; Channel estimation; Estimation; Frequency domain analysis; Ionosphere; MIMO; Radio link; MIMO; ionosphere; polarization diversity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems (COMCAS), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tel Aviv

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1692-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMCAS.2011.6105812

Filename

6105812