Research Article

Analysis of MIMO Capacity Dependence on Multi-Antenna Channel Delay Spread in Reverberation Chamber

by  N. Arsalane, M. A. Garcia-Fernandez, M. Mouhamadou, C. Decroze, D. Carsenat
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International Journal of Applied Information Systems
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 11 - Issue 2
Published: Jul 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

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                        author  = { N. Arsalane,M. A. Garcia-Fernandez,M. Mouhamadou,C. Decroze,D. Carsenat },
                        title   = { Analysis of MIMO Capacity Dependence on Multi-Antenna Channel Delay Spread in Reverberation Chamber },
                        journal = { International Journal of Applied Information Systems },
                        year    = { 2016 },
                        volume  = { 11 },
                        number  = { 2 },
                        pages   = { 31-34 },
                        doi     = { 10.5120/ijais2016451580 },
                        publisher = { Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA }
                        }
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                        %A N. Arsalane
                        %A M. A. Garcia-Fernandez
                        %A M. Mouhamadou
                        %A C. Decroze
                        %A D. Carsenat
                        %T Analysis of MIMO Capacity Dependence on Multi-Antenna Channel Delay Spread in Reverberation Chamber%T 
                        %J International Journal of Applied Information Systems
                        %V 11
                        %N 2
                        %P 31-34
                        %R 10.5120/ijais2016451580
                        %I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
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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Keywords

Channel capacity; MIMO Phase shift keying Rayleigh channels Reverberation chamber

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