A drive test measurement approach to characterize on-vehicle 2×2 LTE-MIMO antennas

Author

Schaffner, James H. ; Bekaryan, Arthur ; Song, Hyok J. ; Talty, Timothy ; Carper, Duane ; Yasan, Eray ; Duzdar, Ayman

Author_Institution

HRL Labs., LLC, Malibu, CA, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

3-9 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

88

Abstract

This paper presents the use of a commercially available radio scanner for characterizing on-vehicle 2×2 Long-Term Evolution (LTE) radio Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas. The scanner measures the LTE eNodeB, i.e. the cell base station, reference signals and each channel and determines the MIMO channel matrices from which the downlink throughput can be determined. For a given LTE radio, this measurement approach can be very useful for efficient comparison between MIMO antennas or among different antenna locations on the vehicle.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; MIMO communication; antenna testing; monopole antennas; scanning antennas; telecommunication channels; vehicles; MIMO channel matrices; antenna locations; cell base station; characterize on-vehicle LTE-MIMO antennas; downlink throughput; drive test measurement approach; eNodeB; monopole MIMO antennas; on-vehicle long-term evolution radio multiple-input multiple-output antennas; radio scanner; reference signals; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Long Term Evolution; MIMO; Receivers; Throughput; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), 2014 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on

Conference_Location

Palm Beach

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5690-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APWC.2014.6905524

Filename

6905524