Capacity growth of multi-element arrays in indoor and outdoor wireless channels

Author

Chuah, C.-N. ; Foschini, G.J. ; Valenzuela, R.A. ; Chizhik, D. ; Ling, J. ; Kahn, J.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1340

Abstract

We demonstrate the capacity growth of multiple-element antenna arrays (MEAs) in a realistic propagation environment using WiSE, an experimental ray tracing tool. WiSE is used to construct the channel response for MEAs operating at 1.9 GHz for two situations: (a) (16-16)-MEAs located inside an office building and (b) (4, 4)-MEAs located in an outdoor fixed wireless loop. We define effective degrees of freedom (EDOFs) as parallel spatial modes of transmission for an MEA. We quantify the increase in both the number of EDOFs and capacity with transmit power, received SNR, and antenna spacing. More EDOFs are present when receiving MEAs are physically closer to the transmitting MEA, regardless of the scattering effect

Keywords

UHF antennas; UHF radio propagation; antenna arrays; business communication; indoor radio; ray tracing; 1.9 GHz; EDOF; MEA; UHF; WiSE; antenna spacing; capacity growth; channel response; indoor wireless channels; multi-element arrays; multiple-element antenna arrays; office building; outdoor fixed wireless loop; outdoor wireless channels; parallel spatial modes; propagation environment; ray tracing tool; received SNR; transmit power; Antenna arrays; Antennas and propagation; Bandwidth; Buildings; Ray tracing; Rayleigh channels; Rayleigh scattering; Receiving antennas; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Confernce, 2000. WCNC. 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6596-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2000.904826

Filename

904826