Versatile Radio Channel Sounder for Double Directional and Multi-link MIMO Channel Measurements at 11 GHz

Yohei KONISHI; Yuyuan CHANG; Minseok KIM; Jun-ichi TAKADA

doi:10.1587/transele.E97.C.994

Versatile Radio Channel Sounder for Double Directional and Multi-link MIMO Channel Measurements at 11 GHz

Yohei KONISHI, Yuyuan CHANG, Minseok KIM, Jun-ichi TAKADA

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This paper presents a 24×24 MIMO channel sounder that has been developed based on a scalable fully parallel MIMO architecture. It can be flexibly configured with 3 sub-transmitters and 3 sub-receivers, each of which consists of 8 RF ports. This flexibility allows the measurement for both purposes of double directional and multi-link MIMO channel measurements. Implementation issues related to the multi-link operation on the fully parallel architecture were successfully solved by appropriate system design and applying several calibration techniques. The performance of the developed system was validated by extensive test experiments. Finally, a multi-link channel measurement example in an indoor environment was presented demonstrating the capability of the proposed system.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E97-C No.10 pp.994-1004

Publication Date: 2014/10/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1353

DOI: 10.1587/transele.E97.C.994

Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Progress in Microwave and Millimeter-wave Technologies)

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Yohei KONISHI
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yuyuan CHANG
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Minseok KIM
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Jun-ichi TAKADA
  Tokyo Institute of Technology

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channel sounding, multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system, multi-link, microwave propagation

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Yohei KONISHI, Yuyuan CHANG, Minseok KIM, Jun-ichi TAKADA, "Versatile Radio Channel Sounder for Double Directional and Multi-link MIMO Channel Measurements at 11,GHz" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics, vol. E97-C, no. 10, pp. 994-1004, October 2014, doi: 10.1587/transele.E97.C.994.
Abstract: This paper presents a 24×24 MIMO channel sounder that has been developed based on a scalable fully parallel MIMO architecture. It can be flexibly configured with 3 sub-transmitters and 3 sub-receivers, each of which consists of 8 RF ports. This flexibility allows the measurement for both purposes of double directional and multi-link MIMO channel measurements. Implementation issues related to the multi-link operation on the fully parallel architecture were successfully solved by appropriate system design and applying several calibration techniques. The performance of the developed system was validated by extensive test experiments. Finally, a multi-link channel measurement example in an indoor environment was presented demonstrating the capability of the proposed system.
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