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Novel MIMO Communication Scheme for Enhanced Indoor Performance in Distributed Antenna Systems

  • Cho, Bong-Youl (Department of Electronics Convergence Engineering, Kwangwoon University) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Young (Department of Electronics Convergence Engineering, Kwangwoon University)
  • Received : 2010.06.21
  • Published : 2010.12.31
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Abstract

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) has been considered one of the key enablers of broadband wireless communications. The indoor environment is known to be favorable to ensure both high rank property and high signal-to-interference/noise ratio (SINR) to fully exploit MIMO spatial multiplexing (SM) gain. In this paper, we describe several practical deployment cases where repeater links (or relay links), such as those present with an indoor distributed antenna system (DAS), can act as keyholes to degenerate the rank property of MIMO communications. In this case, we cannot exploit MIMO SM gain in indoor environment. We propose a novel MIMO communication scheme which uses simple converter in the devices in repeater links to resolve the rank degeneration issue and to ensure MIMO SM gain in highly MIMO-favorable indoor environment. MIMO SM is possible over the indoor DAS with single cable line through use of simple converters, which enables practical deployment in real fields.

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