Impact of Transceiver RFIC Impairments on MIMO System Performance

Author

Jin, Yuehai ; Dai, Fa Foster

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL, USA

Volume

59

Issue

1

fYear

2012

Firstpage

538

Lastpage

549

Abstract

This paper addresses the performance degradation of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems due to MIMO wireless transceiver radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) imperfections. The effects of signal coupling in RF front-end, frequency synthesizer phase noise, and the gain imbalance between different radio paths are investigated. These issues are explored by analytical derivations and results are verified by Monte Carlo simulations. The analytical model achieves a good agreement with the simulation results. The conclusion can serve as a useful reference for MIMO RFIC designers.

Keywords

MIMO communication; Monte Carlo methods; frequency synthesizers; phase noise; radio transceivers; radiofrequency integrated circuits; MIMO communication system; MIMO wireless transceiver RFIC imperfection; MIMO wireless transceiver radio frequency integrated circuit imperfection; Monte Carlo simulation; RF front-end frequency synthesizer phase noise; multiple-input multiple-output communication system; signal coupling; Couplings; MIMO; Phase noise; Radio frequency; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitters; Alamouti code; bit error rate (BER); multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO); phase noise; quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK); signal coupling; space-time block codes (STBC);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0046

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIE.2011.2148670

Filename

5772927