Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2009
Session Number:1B1
Session:
Number:1B1-3
MIMO Requirements and Capabilities with Modern Communication Terminals
Rainer Kronberger, Tobias Michalski, Volker Wienstroer,
pp.57-60
Publication Date:2009/10/21
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
To enhance the throughput and channel capacity in modern communication systems, like WiMAX or LTE, they make use of new MIMO (multiple input multiple output) technologies. As the essential part of MIMO, the communication over uncorrelated channels is arbitrary for the gain in data throughput or communication robustness. Based on modern coding schemes, at least several independent and separated physical channels are necessary. This requires in the same way additional efforts regarding hardware components, i.e. antennas and rf-systems for the base station as well as for the mobile terminal. Due to the limited size of a terminal and due to environmental influences (hand held position, body influence, etc.) sophisticated antenna designs and technologies have to be used to achieve best results. This paper now presents investigations on small mobile terminal antenna arrays and their capabilities for MIMO systems.