Emulation of MIMO Nonisotropic Fading Environments With Reverberation Chambers

Author

Valenzuela-Valdés, Juan F. ; Martínez-González, Antonio M. ; Sánchez-Hernández, David A.

Author_Institution

EMITE Ingeniea SLNE, Murcia

Volume

7

fYear

2008

fDate

6/30/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

325

Lastpage

328

Abstract

Some recent publications have extended the emulating capabilities of reverberation chambers. While polarization imbalance has been removed and Ricean-fading environments are now properly emulated, these chambers are still limited to isotropic nonline of sight (NLOS) scattering. By controlling the power received, number of resolvable multipath components (MPC), angular spread (AS), and angle of arrival (AoA), the emulation of real-propagating environments with both isotropic and nonisotropic scattering are demonstrated in this letter using a reverberation chamber with several multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) arrays.

Keywords

MIMO communication; Rician channels; antenna arrays; direction-of-arrival estimation; reverberation chambers; MIMO nonisotropic fading environments; Ricean-fading environments; angle of arrival; angular spread; isotropic nonline of sight scattering; isotropic scattering; multipath components; multiple-input-multiple-output arrays; nonisotropic scattering; reverberation chambers; K-factor; Q-factor; Reverberation chamber; q-factor; reverberation chamber;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2008.928488

Filename

4563425