Capacity and spatial correlation measurements for wideband distributed MIMO channel in aircraft cabin environment

Measurement-based analysis of channel capacity in aircraft cabin distributed MIMO system

“…The Tx antenna height is 1.68m above the cabin floor. Different from [14], we put Rx antenna receiver on the seat table and change its position from the 4-th to the 27-th row in economy class (see the black pentagrams in Fig. 1).…”

“…Therefore, we will off-line process the channel data obtained from the THU channel sounder and employ these two capacity metrics for D-MIMO performance evaluations. The detailed definitions for ergodic capacity and outage capacity can be found in [14]. We concentrate on the more practical scenario where the receiver is put on the seat table so as to simulate such a real situation when passengers are on board and connected wirelessly.…”

“…However, there are very few cabin measurement-based literatures about D-MIMO. In our pervious works on this topic [14]- [16], Li et al in [14] considers channel capacity only at a single frequency in cabin aisle scenario. Reference [16] investigates the path loss and small scale fading at two different frequency bands.…”

“…Comparing with these works, this paper studies channel capacity, which is the fundamental issue in channel modeling and analysis. Different from Reference [14], we choose a more realistic position (i.e., cabin seat table) for channel measurements in order to imitate the real situation where passengers are on board with seat belts fastened and use wireless devices. We also employ two different frequency bands so as to explore the frequency impact on channel capacity.…”

“…However, comparisons with results in that scenario will be our future work 3. Since the snapshot duration is as low as 1.25ms, the D-MIMO channel could still be measured exactly even though there are some low speed movements in the cabin[14].2015 IEEE 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP)…”