A distributed MIMO scheme for open areas and urban street microcells

Author

Molina-Garcia-Pardo, Jose-Maria ; Pardo-Quiles, D. ; Rodríguez, José-Víctor ; Juan-Llácer, Leandro

Author_Institution

Departamento de Tecnologias de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones, Univ. Politinica de Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

280

Abstract

In this work, a distributed MIMO scheme for open areas and urban street microcells is theoretically analyzed. It uses more than one base station at the same time to increase the diversity. The advantages found using this approach are: a bigger capacity, fewer antennas in the base station and a softer handover. However, it needs a more complex signal processing at both ends of the link. A two ray model and a ray-launching engine based on the application of geometrical optics (GO) are used to analyze the MIMO channel.

Keywords

MIMO systems; channel capacity; diversity reception; microcellular radio; ray tracing; GO; capacity; complex signal processing; distributed MIMO scheme; diversity; geometrical optics; handover; open areas; ray-launching engine; two ray model; urban street microcells; Base stations; Downlink; MIMO; Microcell networks; Mobile antennas; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Radio transmitters; Solid modeling; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2004. PIMRC 2004. 15th IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8523-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2004.1370879

Filename

1370879