A multi-channel sounder architecture for spatial and MIMO characterisation of the mobile radio channel

Author

Salous, S. ; Fillipides, P. ; Hawkins, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Manchester Inst. of Sci. & Technol., UK

fYear

2001

fDate

12 Dec. 2001

Abstract

The paper describes a multi-channel sounder designed and implemented at UMIST. The sounder operates simultaneously at the two frequency bands allocated for UMTS systems and is to be used for angle of arrival measurements using either sectored antennas or an antenna array. Multiple transmit multiple receive antenna measurements will also be carried out. Preliminary results demonstrating the performance of the sounder are presented from various back to back tests. Measurements in an indoor environment using sectored antennas shows the spatial multipath structure over six antennas each covering sixty degrees of angular spread.

Keywords

MIMO systems; UHF antennas; UHF measurement; antenna arrays; array signal processing; cellular radio; direction-of-arrival estimation; indoor radio; multipath channels; radio equipment; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; MIMO characterisation; UMIST; UMTS; angle of arrival; antenna array; indoor environment; mobile radio channel; multi-channel sounder architecture; multipath structure; multiple transmit multiple receive antenna measurements; sectored antennas; spatial characterisation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

MIMO: Communications Systems from Concept to Implementations (Ref. No. 2001/175), IEE Seminar on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/ic:20010208

Filename

1031884