A cost-effective wideband MIMO channel sounder and initial co-located 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz measurements

Author

Maharaj, B.T. ; Linde, L.P. ; Wallace, J.W. ; Jensen, M.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Pretoria Univ., South Africa

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

18-23 March 2005

Abstract

A cost-effective, experimental MIMO channel sounder is presented, capable of performing measurements with up to eight transmit and eight receive elements over 80 MHz of system bandwidth. The system provides the wideband channel transfer matrix for both indoor and outdoor wireless communication scenarios, allowing direct measurement of key MIMO system parameters. The system is described, fundamental hardware building blocks are outlined, and post-processing data algorithms are presented. Initial investigations on the effect of frequency scaling and array configuration at 5.2 GHz and 2.4 GHz are also presented.

Keywords

MIMO systems; UHF measurement; channel capacity; indoor radio; microwave measurement; parameter estimation; transfer function matrices; 2.4 GHz; 5.2 GHz; 80 MHz; MIMO system parameter measurement; array configuration effects; channel capacity; frequency scaling effects; indoor wireless communication; multiple receive elements; multiple transmit elements; outdoor wireless communication; post-processing data algorithms; wideband MIMO channel sounder; wideband channel transfer matrix; Bandwidth; Baseband; Broadband antennas; Costs; Frequency measurement; MIMO; Signal generators; Switches; Transmitters; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005. Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8874-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415876

Filename

1415876