Statistical characterization of the indoor MIMO channel based on LOS/NLOS measurements

Author

Svantesson, Thomas ; Wallace, Jon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

3-6 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

1354

Abstract

Measurements taken at the campus of Brigham Young University (BYU) are used to investigate the statistical properties of the indoor MIMO channel. The Rician K parameter is estimated along a path in both LOS and NLOS. These values are related to the received power and the spatial spectrum calculated using the conventional beamformer. Furthermore, statistical tests are applied to investigate if the data belongs to a multivariate normal distribution. It is found that the univariate statistics can be approximated by a complex normal distribution but only small MIMO systems may be approximated as multivariate normally distributed.

Keywords

MIMO systems; Rician channels; indoor radio; normal distribution; parameter estimation; statistical analysis; 2.43 GHz; Brigham Young University; LOS path; NLOS path; Rician K parameter; complex normal distribution; indoor MIMO channel; indoor channel; multivariate normal distribution; received power; spatial spectrum; statistical characterization; univariate statistics; Communication industry; Costs; Electric variables measurement; Explosives; Floors; MIMO; Statistical distributions; Statistics; Wavelength measurement; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2002. Conference Record of the Thirty-Sixth Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA, USA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7576-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2002.1197000

Filename

1197000