Capacity results from short range fixed MIMO measurements at 5.2 GHz in urban propagation environment

Author

Skentos, Nikolaos ; Kanatas, Athanasios G. ; Pantos, George ; Constantinou, Philip

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Athens Nat. Tech. Univ., Greece

Volume

5

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 June 2004

Firstpage

3020

Abstract

In this paper, wideband MIMO channel measurements conducted in Athens, Greece are described. Short range scenarios with fixed transmitter and receiver, in urban like environments under LOS propagation conditions have been measured, using an 8×8 vector channel sounder operating at 5.2 GHz. Based on the measured MIMO channel matrices, results of mean and outage normalized capacity calculations are presented. These results correspond to systems with various numbers of antenna elements and various ULA antenna configurations.

Keywords

MIMO systems; broadband networks; matrix algebra; microwave antenna arrays; microwave propagation; multipath channels; 5.2 GHz; LOS propagation; ULA antenna; antenna elements; channel matrices; radio receiver; radio transmitter; urban propagation environment; vector channel sounder; wideband MIMO channel; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Frequency measurement; Line-of-sight propagation; Linear antenna arrays; MIMO; Receiving antennas; Transmitters; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2004 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8533-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2004.1313086

Filename

1313086