Picocells with MIMO and Cell Bonding for WLAN Systems

We consider a picocell system that implements multiple input multiple output (MIMO) using cell bonding with one antenna per node. We show that this picocell system can initially have 1/2 or fewer access points (APs) with similar voice over IP coverage as a conventional system, yet can gracefully grow to the capacity of conventional systems with the same number of APs. Although the coverage is somewhat lower for MIMO (both 2times2 and 4times4), we show that through the use of dynamic antenna/node selection the picocell system with cell bonding can have similar coverage to conventional systems.