A 60GHz line-of-sight 2x2 MIMO link operating at 1.2Gbps

Author

Sheldon, Colin ; Torkildson, Eric ; Seo, Munkyo ; Yue, C. Patrick ; Madhow, Upamanyu ; Rodwel, Mark

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

5-11 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We report first experimental results from a hardware prototype of a millimeter wave line-of-sight (LOS) 2times2 MIMO link. The proposed architecture uses antenna element spacing derived from the principles of diffraction limited optics to establish multiple parallel data channels. Operation at millimeter wave carrier frequencies reduces the antenna array size to reasonable dimensions. The proposed system architecture is scalable to larger one dimensional and two dimensional arrays supporting data rates >160 Gbps. This paper presents the design and characterization of a hardware prototype 2times2 LOS MIMO link operating at 1.2 Gbps.

Keywords

MIMO communication; millimetre wave antenna arrays; millimetre wave propagation; radio links; LOS wireless link; MIMO link; antenna array; antenna element spacing; bit rate 1.2 Gbit/s; frequency 60 GHz; hardware prototype; millimeter wave carrier frequencies; millimeter wave line-of-sight link; multiple parallel data channels; system architecture; Frequency; Hardware; Linear antenna arrays; MIMO; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave technology; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Prototypes; Receiving antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2041-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2042-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2008.4619161

Filename

4619161