Statistics of the MIMO radio channel in indoor environments

Author

Stoytchev, Marin ; Safar, Hugo

Author_Institution

Agere Syst., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1804

Abstract

This paper presents a statistical study of the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radio channel in indoor environments in relation to the capacity of multi-antenna wireless systems. Indoor measurements of the transmission matrix, H, at 2.45 GHz are performed using a 16×16 multi-antenna system in the case of line-of-sight (LOS) and in the case when it is completely obstructed (off-axis). This allows us to study the statistics of the capacity of systems with a large number of antennas N for both Rician and Rayleigh fading channels. In addition, we examine the statistics of the eigenvalues of the transmission matrix, which provide subtle details about the MIMO channel in the case of LOS and off-axis that could be of significant importance for practical applications. Relevant theoretical simulations are performed, which show good agreement with the results obtained from measurements

Keywords

MIMO systems; antenna arrays; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; indoor radio; matrix algebra; multipath channels; statistical analysis; 2.45 GHz; MIMO radio channel statistics; Rayleigh fading channels; Rician fading channels; eigenvalues; indoor environments; line-of-sight propagation; multi-antenna wireless systems; multipath wave propagation; multiple-input multiple-output radio channel; off-axis propagation; statistical study; transmission matrix; Antenna measurements; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Frequency; Indoor environments; MIMO; Performance evaluation; Rayleigh channels; Rayleigh scattering; Receiving antennas; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.956511

Filename

956511