Comparison between Time and Frequency Domain MIMO Channel Sounders

Author

Garcia-Pardo, Concepcion ; Molina-Garcia-Pardo, Jose-Maria ; Rodríguez, José-Víctor ; Juan-Llacer, Leandro

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. & Commun. Dept., Tech. Univ. of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, both a time-domain and a frequency-domain 2 × 2 MIMO channel sounders are presented. The time-domain channel sounder is mainly based on the transmission of Code Division Multiplexed (CDM) signals, modulated by a carrier, which are received and acquired by an oscilloscope. The frequency-domain channel sounder is based on a multiport network analyzer which measures the S21 scattering parameter. The features of both sounders are compared by means of indoor measurements.

Keywords

MIMO communication; code division multiplexing; time-frequency analysis; wireless channels; S₂₁ scattering parameter measurement; code division multiplexed signals; frequency domain MIMO channel sounder; indoor measurement; multiport network analyzer; time domain MIMO channel sounder; Antenna measurements; Correlation; Frequency domain analysis; MIMO; Time domain analysis; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2010-Fall), 2010 IEEE 72nd

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3573-9

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2010.5594364

Filename

5594364