The Impact of the user's Body on the Performance of a MIMO Terminal in "Pocket Position"
| Year: | 2007 | |||
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| Type of Publication: | In Proceedings | Keywords: | MIMO communication , antenna arrays , antenna radiation patterns , channel capacity , covariance matrices , notebook computers , receiving antennas | |
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| Book title: | 2nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP 2007) | |||
| Pages: | 1-7 | |||
| Month: | 11-16 November | |||
| Note: | Edinburgh |
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| Abstract: | In this paper the impact of user's body in proximity to a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) terminal on the system performance is investigated. A 4times4 MIMO system is considered with a personal digital assistant (PDA) terminal equipped with a compact array of 4 patch elements. The radiation pattern of each antenna element is simulated in the presence of the other elements and in the presence of a user's body. The obtained patterns are used to evaluate the covariance matrix of the receive antenna array which is incorporated in a correlation-based MIMO channel model. MIMO channel capacity is calculated to demonstrate the capacity degradation caused by the user's body. |
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