Title :
Outdoor-to-Indoor MIMO Hardware Simulator with Channel Sounding at 3.5 GHz
Author :
Habib, Bilal ; Zaharia, Gheorghe ; Farhat, Hanna ; El Zein, Ghais
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Electron. & Telecommun. of Rennes (IETR), Rennes, France
Abstract :
A hardware simulator can simulate a desired radio channel, making it possible to test "on table" various mobile radio systems. This paper presents the new architecture of the digital block of an Outdoor-to-Indoor MIMO hardware simulator. Measurements campaign carried out at 3.5 GHz has been conducted to obtain the impulse responses using a time channel sounder. The measurements are processed with a high resolution algorithm extracting the dominant paths. The new architecture is implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-IV FPGA. The accuracy, the occupation on the FPGA and the latency of this architecture are analyzed.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; field programmable gate arrays; telecommunication computing; transient response; Xilinx Virtex-IV FPGA; digital block; frequency 3.5 GHz; high resolution algorithm; impulse responses; measurements campaign; mobile radio systems; multiple-input multiple-output simulator; outdoor-to-indoor MIMO hardware simulator; radio channel; time channel sounder; Channel models; Field programmable gate arrays; Finite impulse response filters; Hardware; MIMO; Signal to noise ratio; Time-domain analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2013 IEEE 77th
Conference_Location :
Dresden
DOI :
10.1109/VTCSpring.2013.6692687
