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Throughput multiplexing efficiency for mimo antenna characterization

  • Chalmers University of Technology

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Abstract

The antenna-channel effects on multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) throughput are characterized in terms of spatial multiplexing (SM) efficiency. In order to show the antenna effects explicitly, the SM efficiency of an MIMO system (with imperfect transmit antennas) is derived analytically at high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime. It is shown that correlation and power imbalance affect the throughput adversely (as expected) and independently. Although derived for imperfect transmit antennas, the close-form SM efficiency formula turns out to be accurate for 2×2 MIMO systems with imperfect receive antennas as well. It is also shown that the derived SM efficiency formula even reasonably predicts the measured SM efficiency of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6605496
Pages (from-to)1208-1211
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Antennas
  • multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)
  • spatial multiplexing (SM)
  • throughput

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