Summary
International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation
2012
Session Number:2C2
Session:
Number:2C2-3
MIMO Throughput Measurement in an Urban Area Using a LTE Mobile Terminal
Tsutomu Sakata, Atsushi Yamamoto, Kim Olesen,
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Publication Date:2012/10/29
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Recently, Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular mobile communication has been started in a number of countries. The LTE system employs a Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) antenna array for achieving high-data-rate wireless communication. The radio propagation characteristics and antenna array configuration have a great impact on the MIMO performance. Thus, MIMO propagation tests have been carried out to evaluate the MIMO characteristics in realistic environments. So far, the MIMO channel capacity has been used in almost all investigations. However, the MIMO capacity is not sufficient for estimating MIMO data transmission characteristics in an actual wireless communication system. This paper presents an outdoor MIMO throughput experiment using a commercial LTE cellular network in the 2.6 GHz band. The 2-by-2 MIMO throughput was measured in a radio propagation test in an unban area of Aalborg city in Denmark. At the same time, radio channel sounding was also conducted to obtain the radio path distribution. The throughput performance was investigated using the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) and the channel sounding data.