A Novel Spatial Correlation Estimation Technique for MIMO Communication System

Author

Li, Liang-bin ; Wang, Zong-xin

Author_Institution

Commun. Sci. & Eng., Fudan Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A novel algorithm is proposed in this literature to estimate the transmit and receive antenna correlation matrix , R_T and R_R, in MIMO system. Theoretical analysis indicates that the estimation performance is improved when more training number is used. Interestingly, the performance of the estimation of antenna correlation matrix at one side is highly correlated to the correlation degree of the antennas at the other side, but not the correlation degree of itself. Moreover, the relationship between estimation performance and antenna numbers is also presented. Simulation results show that mean error of this algorithm is generally below 0.05 when 200 training symbols are used.

Keywords

MIMO communication; correlation methods; covariance matrices; wireless channels; MIMO communication system; antenna correlation matrix estimation; covariance matrix; novel spatial correlation estimation technique; performance estimation; receive antenna; transmit antenna; wireless channel; Antennas and propagation; Channel capacity; Channel state information; Communication systems; Fading; MIMO; Matrix decomposition; Performance analysis; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2006. VTC-2006 Fall. 2006 IEEE 64th

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0062-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0063-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCF.2006.305

Filename

4109570