LTE-advanced 8×8 MIMO measurements in an indoor scenario

Author

Werner, Karl ; Asplund, Henrik ; Figueiredo, Daniel V P ; Jaldén, Niklas ; Halvarsson, Björn

Author_Institution

Ericsson AB, Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 29 2012-Nov. 2 2012

Firstpage

750

Lastpage

753

Abstract

The potential link performance gains obtained with up to 8×8 MIMO transmissions as standardized in 3GPP LTE Release 10 have been evaluated in an indoor measurement campaign using a testbed implementation. For well-separated antennas, the results show increasing downlink throughput when increasing the number of transmit and receive antennas, up to a median throughput of 335 Mbps for an 8×8 MIMO configuration on a 20 MHz carrier. A similar and only slightly smaller throughput is achieved when using a compact UE array of a size that is more reasonable for a consumer device implementation.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; MIMO communication; radio links; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; 3GPP LTE Release 10; LTE-advanced 8×8 MIMO measurement; bit rate 335 Mbit/s; compact user equipment array; consumer device implementation; downlink throughput; frequency 20 MHz; indoor measurement; indoor scenario; link performance gain; receive antenna; transmit antenna; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Arrays; MIMO; Receiving antennas; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2012 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nagoys

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1001-7

Type

conf

Filename

6393963