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Analysis of MIMO Capacity Dependence on Multi-Antenna Channel Delay Spread in Reverberation Chamber
| International Journal of Applied Information Systems |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 11 - Number 2 |
| Year of Publication: 2016 |
| Authors: N. Arsalane, M. A. Garcia-Fernandez, M. Mouhamadou, C. Decroze, D. Carsenat |
10.5120/ijais2016451580
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N. Arsalane, M. A. Garcia-Fernandez, M. Mouhamadou, C. Decroze, D. Carsenat . Analysis of MIMO Capacity Dependence on Multi-Antenna Channel Delay Spread in Reverberation Chamber. International Journal of Applied Information Systems. 11, 2 ( Jul 2016), 31-34. DOI=10.5120/ijais2016451580
Abstract
Reverberation chambers are cost-effective tools for evaluating Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Over-The-Air (OTA) communication devices performance in both indoor and outdoor urban channel models. Their performance is typically assessed by using several figures-of-merit (FOM), such as MIMO Capacity, which evaluates the amount of information that can be reliably transmitted over a communications channel. Nevertheless, scarce publications about the effect of the environment characteristics, such as delay spread, on this figure-of-merit can be found in the literature. In this contribution, we analyze the dependence of MIMO Capacity on channel delay spread, by means of a multi-antenna OTA communication system using a QPSK modulation. For that purpose, channel RMS delay spread has been varied inside the reverberation chamber loading it with different quantities of absorbing material.
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