MIMO effect evaluation for aeronautical WiMAX in airport at 5.1GHZ

Author

Kanada, Naoki ; Sumiya, Yasuto ; Yonemoto, Naruto ; Futatsumori, Shunichi ; Isozaki, E.

Author_Institution

Electron. Navig. Res. Inst., Chofu, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

24-26 April 2012

Abstract

A new high-speed aeronautical digital communication system called Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communication System (AeroMACS) is currently being considered. This paper describes a study to evaluate the MIMO effect of different antenna configurations for this system in an airport environment. We first proposed an index to evaluate MIMO antenna systems. We then measured transmission coefficients between antennas mounted on an aircraft representing a mobile station and a road vehicle representing a base station at Sendai Airport, and then based on these measurements we compared the channel capacities between SISO, 2×2 MIMO, and 2×6 MIMO antenna systems. We also evaluated channel capacity under multipath rich and poor environments. We conclude that 2×6 MIMO antenna systems are the most effective under any conditions.

Keywords

MIMO communication; WiMax; aircraft antennas; aircraft communication; airports; channel capacity; digital communication; microwave antenna arrays; multipath channels; AeroMACS; MIMO antenna systems; MIMO effect evaluation; SISO; Sendai airport; aeronautical WiMAX; aeronautical mobile airport communication system; aircraft antennas; antenna configurations; base station; channel capacity; frequency 5.1 GHz; high-speed aeronautical digital communication system; mobile station; multipath channel; road vehicle; transmission coefficients; Aircraft; Airports; Antenna measurements; Frequency measurement; MIMO; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), 2012

Conference_Location

Herndon, VA

ISSN

2155-4943

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1901-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNSurv.2012.6218400

Filename

6218400