Title :
Performance of antenna selection for maximum ratio combining MIMO system
Author :
Al-Zahrani, Yousef A. ; Al-Mutairi, Nawaf K. ; Al-Hodhayf, Yasser ; Al-Shahrani, Abdurrahman
Author_Institution :
King Abdulaziz City for Sci. & Technol. (KACST), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
Multiple-antenna systems, also known as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radio, can improve the capacity and reliability of radio communication systems. In this paper, the concept of MIMO systems and the some simulation results for the performance of maximum ratio combining (MRC) are introduced for 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM). Also, we introduce the antenna selection method to reduce the complexity of MIMO systems and present results for this method with MRC system when 16-QAM modulation is employed. We observed the differences in performance, cost, and complexity of the full-complexity MIMO system and the system with antenna selection.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; antenna arrays; diversity reception; quadrature amplitude modulation; telecommunication network reliability; 16-QAM modulation; antenna selection method; full-complexity MIMO system; maximum ratio combining MIMO system; multiple-input multiple-output radio; quadrature amplitude modulation; radio communication reliability systems; Antennas; Complexity theory; Fading; MIMO; Radio frequency; Switches; 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM); Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems; antenna selection; maximum ratio combining (MRC);
Conference_Titel :
Communication Software and Networks (ICCSN), 2011 IEEE 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xi´an
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-485-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSN.2011.6014974
