Title
Antenna Matching for Capacity Maximization in Compact MIMO Systems
Abstract
As MIMO technology slowly matures, it is finding its way into more wireless applications. However, some important applications, including mobile communications, require compact implementations. One important challenge in miniaturizing MIMO systems for compact terminals is to overcome capacity performance degradation resulting from mutual coupling among closely separated antennas. In this contribution, we begin with a review of the state-of-the-art, with particular emphasis on impedance matching and its impact on capacity. Whereas it has been shown that a multiport extension of the conjugate match is optimum in a reference environment with uniform 3D angular power spectrum, its bandwidth is severely reduced by decreasing antenna separation. On the other hand, noncoupled, individual port matching is inherently simpler to implement and broader in bandwidth, but offers a smaller capacity. Here, we demonstrate that mean capacity can be easily maximized with respect to individual port matching in a given random field. The extent of capacity gains provided by the optimized matching network over existing individual port matching networks strongly depends on the propagation environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ISWCS.2006.4362298
2006 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
MIMO systems,compact,mutual coupling,capacity,correlation,impedance matching,optimization
Conference
2154-0217
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-0397-4
5
0.61
References 
Authors
14
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Invited Paper1141.59
buon kiong lau2171785.85
Jørgen Bach Andersen39012.82
Life Fellow450.61
Andreas F. Molisach58233616.51
Gerhard Kristensson6113.46