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Design and Evaluation of Higher Level Modulation in Beam Space MIMO Communication System

빔 공간 MIMO 통신시스템에서 고레벨 변조 설계와 평가

  • Kim, Bong-Jun (Chungbuk National University Department of Electronic Engineering) ;
  • Ryu, Heung-Gyoon (Chungbuk National University Department of Electronic Engineering)
  • Received : 2013.12.10
  • Accepted : 2014.05.07
  • Published : 2014.05.31
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Abstract

ESPAR(Electronically Steerable Parasitic Array Radiator) antenna is the technique for overcoming the problems of space limitation and energy efficiency due to the multiple RF-chain. Conventional MIMO system with multiple antenna requires a large number of RF-chain for transmitting the multiple data because it transmits the data in proportion to the number of antenna. Beamspace MIMO system using the ESPAR antenna which has single RF-chain was proposed for solving the problems caused by using the multiple antenna and RF-chain. In this paper, therefore we propose 2x2 beamspace MIMO system using the 16, 64-QAM modulation and evaluate the performance of this system to reveal that it is possible that beamspace MIMO system can use not only PSK modulation but also QAM modulation. We confirm that QAM symbol can be generated by adjusting reactance of parasitic elements and making reactance set and also we confirm that performance of beamspace MIMO system is similar to the conventional MIMO system by transmitting the QAM symbol made by reactance set through the simulation.

ESPAR(Electronically Steerable Parasitic Array Radiator) 안테나는 기존의 다중 안테나 시스템이 가지는 다중 RF-체인으로 인한 공간적인 제한과 에너지 효율의 문제를 극복하는 기술이다. 다중 안테나와 다중 RF-체인을 사용함으로써 발생하는 문제를 해결하기 위해 단일 RF 체인을 갖는 ESPAR 안테나를 사용하여 다수의 데이터를 동시에 전송할 수 있는 빔 공간 MIMO 시스템이 제안되었다. 기존 연구에서는 PSK 변조 계열에서의 빔 공간 MIMO 시스템에 대해 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 1개의 능동소자와 2개의 기생소자를 가지는 ESPAR 안테나를 사용하여 PSK 변조뿐만 아니라 QAM 변조에서도 빔 공간 MIMO 시스템이 가능하다는 것을 밝히기 위해 16, 64-QAM 변조방식을 이용한 2x2 빔 공간 MIMO 시스템을 제안하고 성능을 평가하였다. ESPAR 안테나의 기생 소자의 리액턴스를 조절하여 리액턴스 셋을 생성하여 QAM 계열의 심볼을 생성할 수 있다는 것을 확인하고 시뮬레이션을 통해 이를 전송하여 빔 공간 MIMO 시스템의 통신성능이 기존의 MIMO 시스템과 유사하게 되는 것을 확인하였다.

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