Title :
Urban Outdoor MIMO Experiments with Realistic Handset and Base Station Antennas
Author :
Ohlmer, Eckhard ; Hofrichter, Jörg ; Bittner, Steffen ; Fettweis, Gerhard ; Wang, Qiong ; Zhang, Hui ; Wolf, Klaus ; Plettemeier, Dirk
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mobile Commun. Syst., Tech. Univ. Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Abstract :
This work presents results for wireless outdoor MIMO transmission experiments at 2.68 GHz, which were conducted in an urban residential area, using realistic handset and base station antennas. Characteristic parameters of MIMO systems, obtained from measurements, were compared to theoretical results. From the comparison it could be concluded that the transmission of two spatial streams was well supported in the investigated 2 × 2 MIMO system, even with receive antenna element spacings as small as a quarter of the wave length. Comparing different receive antennas, the MIMO performance was found to be dominated by the received signal power rather than the spatial correlation.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; MIMO transmission; base station antennas; frequency 2.68 GHz; realistic handset; received signal power; spatial correlation; Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Base stations; MIMO; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Prototypes; Receiving antennas; Telephone sets; Transmitting antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2010-Spring), 2010 IEEE 71st
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2518-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1550-2252
DOI :
10.1109/VETECS.2010.5493760
