Experimental spatial correlation characteristics of propagation channels in indoor environments

Author

Zuo, Quan ; Yin, Xuefeng ; Zeng, Zhechen ; Kwak, Byung-Jae ; Chung, Hyun Kyu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2010

fDate

21-23 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Spatial auto- and cross-correlation characteristics of propagation channels are investigated for four indoor scenarios using measurement data. In addition to the well-known spatial auto-correlation effect, significant cross-correlation between channels is also observed. We found that non-zero spatial cross-correlation among channels may occur in three scenarios with possibly different mechanisms. These results should be considered when establishing realistic models for the spatial cross-correlation behavior of channels.

Keywords

indoor radio; radiowave propagation; indoor environments; nonzero spatial cross-correlation; propagation channels; spatial autocorrelation characteristics; spatial cross-correlation characteristics; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Coherence; Correlation; Fading; MIMO; Relays; Coordinated multi-point transmission; auto-correlation; channel characterization; coherent distance; cross-correlation; spread function;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Suzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7556-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7554-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCSP.2010.5629977

Filename

5629977