MIMO - study propagation first!

Author

Bonek, Emst ; Herdin, Markus ; Weichselberger, Werner ; Özcelik, Hüseyin

Author_Institution

Institut fur Nachrichtentechnik und Hochfrequenztechnik, Technische Univ. Wien, Austria

fYear

2003

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

150

Lastpage

153

Abstract

Despite many valuable contributions to the theory and practice of MIMO communication systems from various scientific fields, we want to emphasize the outstanding importance of propagation aspects when dealing with MIMO systems. Radio propagation forms the basis for any radio channel including MIMO systems. On one hand, popular mathematical models and the commonly applied statistical assumptions sometimes turn out to neglect the important properties of MIMO radio channels. On the other hand, the detailed knowledge and investigations of MIMO specific phenomena (e.g. pinholes) does not imply the practical relevance. By means of four specific examples, we argue that studying propagation is indispensable in order to stay in touch with the real MIMO channels.

Keywords

MIMO systems; mobile radio; radiowave propagation; statistical analysis; telecommunication channels; MIMO communication systems; mathematical models; radio channels; radio propagation aspects; synthetic pinhole channel; Aggregates; Channel coding; Communication systems; Fading; Information theory; MIMO; Mathematical model; Radio propagation; Radio transmitters; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2003. ISSPIT 2003. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8292-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSPIT.2003.1341082

Filename

1341082