Spectrum is a limited and valuable resource. The escalating requirement for wireless communication and broadband services has augmented the attempts to improve the designs for wireless systems. These enhanced wireless systems offer substantial increase in data throughput and link range without the requirement of any additional bandwidth. This led to the development of MIMO Systems. In Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology, multiple antennas are used at both the transmitter and receiver to improve the functioning of the wireless communication system. We accomplish this objective by exploiting the spatial domain of the transmission medium.
In this chapter, we describe the MIMO system model along with a brief discussion of its operation principle is detail in section 3.2. In Section 3.3, we have discussed MIMO channel models, and the basic parameters influencing the MIMO system design. Narrowband and wideband MIMO channels which are part of this thesis are also discussed in this section only. Section 3.4 enumerates spatial correlation, an impairment specific to MIMO systems worth considering while designing MIMO systems.
3.2 MIMO Communication Model:
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology is the foundation of new-age wireless communication systems due to the budding data rate and improved performance of wireless links. These qualities are offered due to the transmission diversity. The transmitting antennas and the receiving antennas are linked such that the quality (the bit error rate (BER), or the data rate) for each user is improved.
The viability of implementing MIMO system and the associated signal processing algorithms increases with an equal and corresponding increase in the computational power of the int...
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... kept at both the sides of the wireless link, representing as single-input/single output (SISO) system. Employing multiple antennas on either sides of the communication link, system is represented as multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) systems [Tarokh 1998]. This dissimilarity in a SISO system and a MIMO system using Nt transmitting and NR receiving antennas is the means of representing a single stream of data symbols to Nt streams of symbols and the equivalent inverse operation at the receiver side. Systems with multiple antennas on the receiver side only are called single input/multiple output (SIMO) systems whereas with multiple antennas at the transmitter side only are called multiple input/single output (MISO) systems. The MIMO system is the most frequently used and it includes SISO, MISO, and SIMO systems as special cases which are shown below in figure 3.3:
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Wireless communication has encouraged the practice of optimizing performance in wireless networks to achieve higher data rates and network coverage for the end user. Such strategies and methods will be examined to verify their validity and to introduce future solutions to the limitations of wireless communication systems. Wireless communication performance is affected by channel fading, path loss, and interference. There are several techniques that can be used to avoid signal degradation. At short distances, a transmitter and receiver pair is capable of achieving a quality connection. However, relay networks have become a popular strategy for transmitters and receivers that have been separated by large distances or large obstructions in the path. Relays are used to retransmit the signal with or without encoding it again. Cooperative communication extends coverage and reduces transmission power by utilizing spatial diversity. Distributed Coding is a cooperative technique that allows multiple antennas to work together to transmit information. The specifications for these different networks can be a difficult task. There are several relay configurations and trade-offs. The present design process for relay networks is constrained to the drawbacks of the wireless channel. Strategies using MIMO (multiple input-multiple output) overcome many of the inherent problems with wireless transmission and have become widely popular. Research will expound on the advantages of relay systems, MIMO, and other selected strategies that optimize performance in a wireless network.
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