Title :
Effects of Partial Blocking of Transmission Array Antenna on Transmission Performance of MIMO Eigenbeam Space-Division Multiplexing
Author :
Takahashi, Satoshi ; Kobayashi, Takehiko ; Ahn, Chang-Jun ; Ishida, Kenji
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. Sci., Hiroshima City Univ., Japan
Abstract :
In MIMO eigenbeam space-division multiplexing, all transmission and reception antennas have been used to obtain the maximum transmission performance. However, the absorbed energy is wasteful when a part of the elements are blocked. In this paper, a method of giving up the use of transmission elements that does not function is proposed. Result of ray tracing simulation showed that the proposed method outperformed the conventional MIMO that used all array elements.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; antenna arrays; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; ray tracing; receiving antennas; space division multiplexing; transmitting antennas; MIMO eigenbeam space-division multiplexing; array elements; partial blocking effects; ray tracing simulation; reception antennas; transmission array antenna; transmission elements; Antenna arrays; Digital communication; MIMO; Matrices; Mobile antennas; Power engineering and energy; Ray tracing; Receiving antennas; Space technology; Transmitting antennas; MIMO; eigenbeam space-division multiplexing; partial blocking; ray tracing; transmission performance;
Conference_Titel :
Communications and Electronics, 2006. ICCE '06. First International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hanoi
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0568-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0569-6
DOI :
10.1109/CCE.2006.350813
