MIMO Channel Capacity Gains in mm-Wave LOS Systems with Irregular Sparse Array Antennas
Paper i proceeding, 2017

This paper investigates potential advantages of linear irregular sparse antenna arrays over their regular counterparts in a mm-wave line-of-sight (LOS) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scenario. The comparison is based on numerical computations of MIMO eigenvalues of the corresponding channel matrices and the resulting channel capacity. Identical linear antenna arrays are assumed at the transmitter and the receiver sides. The compared regular and irregular arrays have an equal aperture length. Mutual coupling between elements within an array is assumed negligible due to the array sparsity. A 4×4 MIMO channel is studied, where we change the position of the two inner elements to obtain irregularly spaced arrays. It is shown that for some specific distances between TX and RX, the irregular array distribution can significantly improve the channel capacity in LOS. This observation opts for reconfigurable array designs.

Irregular array

5G

Channel capacity

LOS multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)

Författare

Navid Amani

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Carlo Bencivenni

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Andres Alayon Glazunov

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Marianna Ivashina

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Rob Maaskant

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

APWC 2017

Vol. 2017-January

IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications
Verona , ,

Silicon-based Ka-band massive MIMO antenna systems for new telecommunication services (SILIKA)

Europeiska kommissionen (EU) (EC/H2020/721732), 2016-09-01 -- 2020-08-31.

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

DOI

10.1109/APWC.2017.8062297

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