Towards the development of a hardware simulator for MIMO radio channels

Author

Picol, Sylvie ; Zaharia, Gheorghe ; El Zein, Ghaïs

Author_Institution

Inst. d´´Electronique et de Telecommun. de Rennes, UMR CNRS, Rennes, France

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

14-15 July 2005

Firstpage

115

Abstract

The aim of the PRIR^a SIMPAA2 project, which continues the research activities of the RNRT^b SIMPAA^c project, is the realization of a hardware simulator of MIMO propagation channels for UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications system) and WLAN (wireless local area networks) applications. The simulator must reproduce the behavior of the radio propagation channel, thus making it possible to test "on table" the mobile radio equipments. The advantages are: low cost, short test duration, the possibility to ensure the same test conditions in order to compare the performance of various equipments.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; MIMO systems; telecommunication equipment testing; wireless LAN; wireless channels; MIMO radio channels; PRIR SIMPAA2 project; RNRT SIMPAA project; UMTS; WLAN; hardware simulator; mobile radio equipments; radio propagation channel; universal mobile telecommunications system; wireless local area networks; 3G mobile communication; Cities and towns; Electromagnetic propagation; Hardware; MIMO; Radio communication; Radio propagation; Reflection; Testing; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Circuits and Systems, 2005. ISSCS 2005. International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9029-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCS.2005.1509864

Filename

1509864