Capacity Evaluation of LoS-Optimised and Standard MIMO Antenna Arrays at 5.2 GHz

— In this paper, the channel capacity of MIMO communication systems is evaluated from measurements in a home environment at 5.2 GHz. The capacity performance of a novel Line-of-Sight (LoS)-optimised antenna array architecture is investigated and compared to that of standard MIMO antenna arrays with one-wavelength inter-element spacing. Several transmit/receive locations are taken into account including LoS, non-LoS and obstructed-LoS areas. The results reveal that the proposed architecture can offer a significant capacity increase (more than 50%) in LoS environments compared to standard MIMO arrays. On the other hand, in non-LoS scenarios the performance of the proposed array is similar to the standard architecture.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: VTC
• Authors: Ioannis Sarris, Andrew R. Nix
• Keywords: Antenna Arrays, Standard Mimo, Standard Mimo Antenna, VTC 2007