Urban Outdoor MIMO Experiments with Realistic Handset and Base Station Antennas

Author

Ohlmer, Eckhard ; Hofrichter, Jörg ; Bittner, Steffen ; Fettweis, Gerhard ; Wang, Qiong ; Zhang, Hui ; Wolf, Klaus ; Plettemeier, Dirk

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mobile Commun. Syst., Tech. Univ. Dresden, Dresden, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

16-19 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This work presents results for wireless outdoor MIMO transmission experiments at 2.68 GHz, which were conducted in an urban residential area, using realistic handset and base station antennas. Characteristic parameters of MIMO systems, obtained from measurements, were compared to theoretical results. From the comparison it could be concluded that the transmission of two spatial streams was well supported in the investigated 2 × 2 MIMO system, even with receive antenna element spacings as small as a quarter of the wave length. Comparing different receive antennas, the MIMO performance was found to be dominated by the received signal power rather than the spatial correlation.

Keywords

MIMO communication; MIMO transmission; base station antennas; frequency 2.68 GHz; realistic handset; received signal power; spatial correlation; Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Base stations; MIMO; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Prototypes; Receiving antennas; Telephone sets; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2010-Spring), 2010 IEEE 71st

Conference_Location

Taipei

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2518-1

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2010.5493760

Filename

5493760