The Impact of the user\´s Body on the Performance of a MIMO Terminal in "Pocket Position"

Author

Michalopoulou, A. ; Zervos, T. ; Alexandridis, A.A. ; Peppas, K. ; Lazarakis, F. ; Dangakis, K. ; Kaklamani, Dimitra I.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf. & Telecommun., Nat. Centre for Sci. Res. Demokritos, Athens

fYear

2007

fDate

11-16 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

In this paper the impact of user´s body in proximity to a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) terminal on the system performance is investigated. A 4times4 MIMO system is considered with a personal digital assistant (PDA) terminal equipped with a compact array of 4 patch elements. The radiation pattern of each antenna element is simulated in the presence of the other elements and in the presence of a user´s body. The obtained patterns are used to evaluate the covariance matrix of the receive antenna array which is incorporated in a correlation-based MIMO channel model. MIMO channel capacity is calculated to demonstrate the capacity degradation caused by the user´s body.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; channel capacity; covariance matrices; notebook computers; receiving antennas; MIMO terminal; antenna radiation pattern; channel capacity; covariance matrix; multiple-input-multiple-output terminal; personal digital assistant; receive antenna array; MIMO channel model; MIMO terminal; capacity; human body and antenna interaction; human body model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2007. EuCAP 2007. The Second European Conference on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

Print_ISBN

978-0-86341-842-6

Type

conf

Filename

4458402