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Evaluation of the effect of base station antenna polarization on the performance of CoMP transmission techniques based on synchronous multi-link measurements

Bin Redhwan, Sakib ; Shekhan, Ahmad ; Dahman, Ghassan LU ; Flordelis, Jose LU and Tufvesson, Fredrik LU orcid (2016) 27th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'16)
Abstract
In this paper, the effect of polarization on the downlink achievable sum-rate of multi-user Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP) systems is studied using synchronous multi-link channel measurements with two different antenna arrangements. In the first setup, four dual-polarized antenna patches with inter-patch distance varied from half wavelength to 8 m are considered at the base station (BS). In the second setup, two BSs located 60 m apart are used, each is provided with dual-polarized antennas spaced half a wavelength apart. Based on the BS antenna element selection, scenarios with different antenna polarizations at the BSs are considered. We consider four virtual users each is equipped with two antennas (V and H-polarized) with... (More)
In this paper, the effect of polarization on the downlink achievable sum-rate of multi-user Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP) systems is studied using synchronous multi-link channel measurements with two different antenna arrangements. In the first setup, four dual-polarized antenna patches with inter-patch distance varied from half wavelength to 8 m are considered at the base station (BS). In the second setup, two BSs located 60 m apart are used, each is provided with dual-polarized antennas spaced half a wavelength apart. Based on the BS antenna element selection, scenarios with different antenna polarizations at the BSs are considered. We consider four virtual users each is equipped with two antennas (V and H-polarized) with half-wavelength inter-element distance. The users are equally spaced with inter-user distance of about 0.5 m and moving in different routes. For each setup, the 8 × 4 MIMO multi-user channels are used to evaluate the achievable sum-rate of the system, where the minimum mean square error (MMSE) beamforming at both the BS and the mobile station (MS) is used. It is found that the performance improvement gained from using dual-polarized antennas at the BS vanishes if the BS antenna elements are distributed over large distance (i.e., having a large antenna array aperture). However, in the measured environment, for the case of having two BSs each of which is provided with co-located antennas, using dual-polarized antennas provide about 40% improvement in the ergodic sum-rate compared to using single-polarized antennas. (Less)
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In this paper, the effect of polarization on the downlink sum-rate capacity of multi-user Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP) systems using synchronous multi-link measurement data, for two different antenna arrangements, is studied. In the first setup, four antenna patches each of which with dual-polarized antenna elements at the base station (BS) with inter-patch distance varied from half wavelength to 8 m is considered. In the second setup, two BSs located 60 m apart are used each is provided with dual-polarized antennas spaced half a wavelength apart. Based on the BS antenna element selection, scenarios with different antenna polarizations at the BSs are considered. We assume the existence of four virtual users each equipped with two... (More)
In this paper, the effect of polarization on the downlink sum-rate capacity of multi-user Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP) systems using synchronous multi-link measurement data, for two different antenna arrangements, is studied. In the first setup, four antenna patches each of which with dual-polarized antenna elements at the base station (BS) with inter-patch distance varied from half wavelength to 8 m is considered. In the second setup, two BSs located 60 m apart are used each is provided with dual-polarized antennas spaced half a wavelength apart. Based on the BS antenna element selection, scenarios with different antenna polarizations at the BSs are considered. We assume the existence of four virtual users each equipped with two dual-polarized antennas with half-wavelength inter-element distance. The users are equally spaced with inter-user distance of about 0.5 m and moving in different routes. For each scenario, 8x4 MIMO channels of each user are used to evaluate the sum-rate capacity of the system, where the minimum mean square error (MMSE) beamforming at both the BS and the mobile station (MS) is used. It is found that the performance improvement gained from using dual-polarized antennas at the BS vanishes if the BS antenna elements are distributed over large distance (i.e., having a large antenna array). However, in the measured environment, for the case of having two BSs each of which is provided with closely-located antennas, using dual-polarized antennas provide about 40% improvement in the ergodic sum-rate capacity compared to using single-polarized antennas. (Less)
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2016 IEEE 27th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications - (PIMRC)
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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27th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'16)
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Valencia, Spain
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2016-09-04 - 2016-09-07
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978-1-5090-3255-6
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10.1109/PIMRC.2016.7794770
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English
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  author       = {{Bin Redhwan, Sakib and Shekhan, Ahmad and Dahman, Ghassan and Flordelis, Jose and Tufvesson, Fredrik}},
  booktitle    = {{2016 IEEE 27th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications - (PIMRC)}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  title        = {{Evaluation of the effect of base station antenna polarization on the performance of CoMP transmission techniques based on synchronous multi-link measurements}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2016.7794770}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/PIMRC.2016.7794770}},
  year         = {{2016}},
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