Title :
LOS and NLOS capacity components in MIMO Rice fading channels
Author :
Vergara, Victor M. ; Barbin, Silvio E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
Random matrix theory has proven to be a very instrumental tool for the computation of the average capacity of MIMO communication channels. The problem formulation has been limited to Rayleigh fading, which makes the results very useful for NLOS channels like in macrocells of mobile communication systems. In addition to NLOS paths, microcells exhibit dominant LOS components requiring a more comprehensive statistical model such as the Rician fading. The Rice parameter expresses the relation between LOS and NLOS components. Using the Rice parameter, this work analyzes Rice MIMO capacity separating the bits due to strong LOS from those due to NLOS.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; Rician channels; MIMO communication channels; MIMO rice fading channels; NLOS capacity components; Rician fading; microcells; random matrix theory; rice MIMO capacity; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Finite element methods; Mathematical model; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; MIMO systems; Rician channels; information rates; random matrix theory;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2010 Asia-Pacific
Conference_Location :
Yokohama
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7590-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-902339-22-2
