MIMO antenna configuration for Femtocell application

Abstract

Recent advances in the development of mobile applications have led to a need for mobile broadband platforms which support the capacity that these applications require. An investigation of possible antenna configurations that would be compatible with MIMO systems suitable for Femtocell applications is presented. A MIMO configuration of up to 6×2 antenna elements is modelled with the use of HFSS. Its performance is measured by means of the ideal-channel capacity increase it provides compared to a SISO architecture. The performance of the same MIMO configuration is then successfully modelled in Epsilon™ (Roke's own channel modelling tool) with the use of a non-ideal indoor model. The simulations show that with the proposed configuration, it is possible to achieve a two-fold capacity increase compared to a SISO architecture in both channel conditions.

A Review of Radio Resource Management in FemtoCell from Interference Control Perspective

“…MIMO spatial link adaptation will enable a femtocell to achieve high data rates and optimum coverage [1]. An initial investigation to provide possible antenna configuration that would be compatible with MIMO systems suitable for femtocell application is presented in [109]. A MIMO configuration of up to 6 × 2 antenna elements is modeled for this purpose.…”

Design of MIMO Antennas for Indoor Base Station and Mobile Terminal

“…To this end, MIMO antennas with multipolarization [13], [14], directive radiation patterns [15], and well-configured planar inverted-F antennas (PIFA) [16] have been proposed. Although directive radiation patterns have been confirmed to improve channel capacity in a few scenarios [17], [18], the suitable design in antenna radiation patterns is still left in order not to reduce mutual couplings but to enhance signal to noise ratio (SNR).…”