Multiuser MIMO Channel Measurements and Performance in a Large Office Environment
- 1 January 2007
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- p. 1900-1905
- https://doi.org/10.1109/wcnc.2007.356
Abstract
We consider a multiuser MIMO-OFDMA scheme which exploits multiuser diversity in all dimensions: time, frequency and space. The main contribution of this paper is the evaluation and explanation of multiuser MIMO in a real world scenario, i.e. a large office room, based on measured channels. We report interesting results of a measurement campaign which suggest that significant MIMO gains are possible in an indoor environment even under strong line-of-sight condition as long as the distance of the users from the base station is larger than a reverberation distance which only depends on room surface and material. We show results on the achievable multiuser MIMO data rates for the given scenario compare to theoretical limits and discuss the results in the light of the insights gained from the measurement campaign. We also introduce restrictions on the rate distribution between users, i.e. QoS constraints. It is shown that the theoretical limits can be approximately achieved provided that the users which compete for the spatial resources are carefully chosen.Keywords
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