Title
Experimental evaluation of theperformance of 2×2 MIMO-OFDM for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications
Abstract
In this paper, a novel 2×2 multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) testbed based on an Analog Devices AD9361 highly integrated radio frequency (RF) agile transceiver was specifically implemented for the purpose of estimating and analyzing MIMO-OFDM channel capacity in vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) environments using the 920 MHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band. We implemented two-dimensional discrete cosine transform-based filtering to reduce the channel estimation errors and show its effectiveness on our measurement results. We have also analyzed the effects of channel estimation error on the MIMO channel capacity by simulation. Three different scenarios of subcarrier spacing were investigated which correspond to IEEE 802.11p, Long-Term Evolution (LTE), and Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T)(2k) standards. An extensive MIMO-OFDM V2I channel measurement campaign was performed in a suburban environment. Analysis of the measured MIMO channel capacity results as a function of the transmitter-to-receiver (TX-RX) separation distance up to 250 m shows that the variance of the MIMO channel capacity is larger for the near-range line-of-sight (LOS) scenarios than for the long-range non-LOS cases, using a fixed receiver signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) criterion. We observed that the largest capacity values were achieved at LOS propagation despite the common assumption of a degenerated MIMO channel in LOS. We consider that this is due to the large angular spacing between MIMO subchannels which occurs when the receiver vehicle rooftop antennas pass by the fixed transmitter antennas at close range, causing MIMO subchannels to be orthogonal. In addition, analysis on the effects of different subcarrier spacings on MIMO-OFDM channel capacity showed negligible differences in mean channel capacity for the subcarrier spacing range investigated. Measured channels described in this paper are available on request.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1186/s13638-015-0411-5
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
MIMO-OFDM, Capacity, V2I, LOS, Channel
MIMO-OFDM,Subcarrier,Multi-user MIMO,Telecommunications,3G MIMO,Computer science,MIMO,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Channel capacity,Precoding,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2015
1
1687-1499
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
29
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Okechukwu Onubogu120.38
Karla Ziri-Castro241.08
Dhammika Jayalath319720.50
H. Suzuki411815.61