Antenna Selection Strategies for MIMO Systems

Antenna selection strategies for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems is presented. In our scheme, both transmit and receive antenna selection is done at the receiver, significantly reducing feedback information to the transmitter. Row/column probability density function (pdf) is used for antenna selection to reduce computational complexity without performance degradation. Unlike other schemes, we used two different antenna selection algorithms both for high SNR and low SNR regime, achieving additional performance gain in comparison with the single antenna selection algorithm. Simulation results show that our scheme nearly approaches to the optimal closed-loop capacity (known as water-filling capacity).