Title :
Effect of Mutual Coupling on BER Performance of Alamouti Scheme
Author :
Abouda, A.A. ; El-Sallabi, H.M. ; Haggman, S.G.
Author_Institution :
Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Espoo
Abstract :
This work presents a study on the effect of mutual coupling on the performance of Alamouti scheme by studying the bit error rate (BER) performance under different propagation scenarios and for different coupling cases. We show that the presence of mutual coupling may have positive or negative impact on the achieved power gain depending on the correlation properties of the propagation environment in absence of the coupling effect and on the mutual coupling matrix
Keywords :
MIMO systems; antenna arrays; diversity reception; error statistics; matrix algebra; radiowave propagation; Alamouti scheme; BER performance; bit error rate performance; correlation properties; coupling cases; mutual coupling matrix; power gain; propagation scenarios; Antennas and propagation; Bit error rate; Diversity methods; Fading; MIMO; Mutual coupling; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; System performance; Transmitting antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium 2006, IEEE
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0123-2
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2006.1711714
