Outdoor Channel Characterization of MIMO-LTE Antenna Configurations through Measurements

Author

Oikonomopoulos-Zachos, C. ; Ould, T. ; Arnold, Martin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Antennas & EM-Modelling, IMST GmbH, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

6-9 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper different MIMO-antenna configurations are tested in a real outdoor MIMO-LTE environment. The outdoor investigations took place in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany, where Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) provided an LTE base station for the measurements. The various MIMO-antennas were mounted in different positions on a BMW 525d station wagon. The measurements were performed in the upper LTE frequency band at 2.6 GHz. Here, the results of the yielded data throughput as well as an analysis of the variations of the modulation technique depending on the received SNR will be presented and some preliminary conclusions will be discussed.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; MIMO communication; UHF antennas; antenna arrays; mobile antennas; modulation; ALU; Alcatel-Lucent; BMW 525d station wagon; Germany; LTE base station; MIMO-LTE antenna configuration; Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen; modulation technique; outdoor channel characterization; upper LTE frequency band; Antenna measurements; Dipole antennas; MIMO; Mirrors; Throughput; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2012 IEEE 75th

Conference_Location

Yokohama

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0989-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2012.6240252

Filename

6240252