Single-field programmable gate array simulator for geometric multiple-input multiple-output fading channel models

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 1246-1254 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.F. Fard ◽  
B.F. Cockburn ◽  
A. Alimohammad
Keyword(s):  
Field Programmable Gate Array ◽  
Fading Channel ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Channel Models ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Gate Array ◽  
Single Field

Field Programmable Gate Array Based Testbed for Investigating Multiple Input Multiple Output Signal Transmission in Indoor Environments

2009 ◽  
pp. 474-499
Author(s):  
Konstanty Bialkowski ◽  
Adam Postula ◽  
Amin Abbosh ◽  
Marek Bialkowski
Keyword(s):  
Field Programmable Gate Array ◽  
Signal Transmission ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Front End ◽  
Rf Front End ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Gate Array

This chapter introduces the concept of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system and the necessity to use a testbed to evaluate its performance. A comprehensive review of different types of testbeds available in the literature is presented. Next, the design and development of a 2×2 MIMO testbed which uses in-house built antennas, commercially available RF chips for an RF front end and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for based signal processing is described. The operation of the developed testbed is verified using a Channel Emulator. The testing is done for the case of a simple Alamouti QPSK based encoding and decoding scheme of baseband signals.

scholarly journals MIMO Fading Emulator Development with FPGA and Its Application to Performance Evaluation of Mobile Radio Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshio Karasawa ◽  
Katsuhiro Nakada ◽  
Guijiang Sun ◽  
Rikako Kotani
Keyword(s):  
Channel Model ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Performance Limit ◽  
Stage Scheme ◽  
Mobile Radio Systems ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Radio Systems

We present four new developments for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) over-the-air measurement system based on our previous studies. The first two developments relate to the channel model for multipath environment generation. One is a further simplification of the circuit configuration without performance degradation by reducing the number of delay generation units, which dominate the performance limit when implementing the circuit on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The other is to realize spatial correlation characteristics among the input ports on the transmission side, whereas the previously proposed channel model did not consider this correlation. The third development involves the details of implementing the MIMO fading emulator on an FPGA as a two-stage scheme. The fourth is the demonstration of application examples of the developed system.

scholarly journals Emulating Realistic Bidirectional Spatial Channels for MIMO OTA Testing

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Fan ◽  
Pekka Kyösti ◽  
Jesper Ø. Nielsen ◽  
Lassi Hentilä ◽  
Gert F. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Experimental Validation ◽  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Line Of Sight ◽  
Channel Models ◽  
Bidirectional Communication ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Time Division ◽  
Space Line

This paper discusses over the air (OTA) testing for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) capable terminals with emphasis on modeling bidirectional spatial channel models in multiprobe anechoic chamber (MPAC) setups. In the literature, work on this topic has been mainly focused on how to emulate downlink channel models, whereas uplink channel is often modeled as free space line-of-sight channel without fading. Modeling realistic bidirectional (i.e., both uplink and downlink) propagation environments is essential to evaluate any bidirectional communication systems. There have been works stressing the importance of emulating full bidirectional channel and proposing possible directions to implement uplink channels in the literature. Nevertheless, there is no currently published work reporting an experimental validation of such concepts. In this paper, a general framework to emulate bidirectional channels for time division duplexing (TDD) and frequency division duplexing (FDD) communication systems is proposed. The proposed technique works for MPAC setups with arbitrary uplink and downlink probe configurations, that is, possibly different probe configurations (e.g., number of probes or their configurations) in the uplink and downlink. The simulation results are further supported by measurements in a practical MPAC setup. The proposed algorithm is shown to be a valid method to emulate bidirectional spatial channel models.

scholarly journals Conceiving Inferential Prototypes of MIMO Channel Models via Buckingham’s Similitude Principle for 30+ GHz through THz Spectrum

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Perambur Neelakanta ◽  
Dolores De Groff
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Input Multiple Output ◽  
Path Loss ◽  
Spatial Multiplexing ◽  
Mimo Channel ◽  
Channel Models ◽  
Multiple Input ◽  
Input Multiple Output ◽  
Channel Statistics ◽  
Wave Range ◽  
Test Spectrum

Facilitating newer bands of ‘unused’ segments (windows) of RF spectrum falling in the mm-wave range (above 30+ GHz) and seeking usable stretches across unallocated THz spectrum, could viably be considered for Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communications. This could accommodate the growing needs of multigigabit 3G/4G applications in outdoor-based backhauls in picocellular networks and in indoor-specific multimedia networking. However, in contrast with cellular and Wi-Fi, wireless systems supporting sub-mm wavelength transreceive communications in the outdoor electromagnetic (EM) ambient could face “drastically different propagation geometry”; also, in indoor contexts, envisaging pertinent spatial-multiplexing with directional, MIMO links could pose grossly diverse propagation geometry across a number of multipaths; as such, channel-models based on stochastic features of diverse MIMO-specific links in the desired test spectrum of mm-wave/THz band are sparsely known and almost non-existent. To alleviate this niche, a method is proposed here to infer sub-mm band MIMO channel-models (termed as “prototypes”) by judiciously sharing “similarity” of details available already pertinent to traditional “models” of lower-side EM spectrum, (namely, VLF through micro-/mm-wave). Relevant method proposed here relies on the “principle of similitude” due to Edgar Buckingham. Exemplar set of “model-to-(inferential)-prototype” transformations are derived and prescribed for an exhaustive set of fading channel models as well as, towards estimating path-loss of various channel statistics in the high-end test spectrum.

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