Measurement and characterization of broadband MIMO fixed wireless channels at 2.5 GHz

Author

Baum, Daniel S. ; Gore, Dhananjay ; Nabar, Rohit ; Panchanathan, Srilatha ; Hari, K.V.S. ; Erceg, Vinko ; Paulraj, Arogyaswami J.

Author_Institution

Inf. Syst. Lab., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

203

Lastpage

206

Abstract

We study the channel typical for cellular broadband fixed wireless applications. A measurement system for a two-element-transmit by two-element-receive antenna configuration was built, Measurements were conducted in a suburban environment with dual antenna polarization and transmit separation. We present results on K-factor, cross-polarization discrimination (XPD) and Doppler spectrum. Our results address the influence of distance and antenna height for K-factor and XPD. We also comment on the properties of a fixed wireless channel and describe its Doppler spectrum

Keywords

antenna testing; cellular radio; electromagnetic wave polarisation; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; 2.5 GHz; Doppler spectrum; K-factor; MIMO channels; XPD; antenna measurement; broadband channels; cellular wireless; cross-polarization discrimination; dual antenna polarization; fixed wireless channels; suburban environment; transmit separation; two-element-receive antenna; two-element-transmit antenna; Antenna measurements; Bandwidth; Base stations; Frequency measurement; Hardware; MIMO; Mobile antennas; Quality of service; Space technology; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal Wireless Communications, 2000 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hyderabad

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5893-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPWC.2000.905803

Filename

905803