Experiments on a MIMO System Having Dual Polarization Diversity Branches

Nirmal Kumar DAS
Masahiro SHINOZAWA
Norihisa MIYADAI
Tetsuki TANIGUCHI
Yoshio KARASAWA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E89-B    No.9    pp.2522-2529
Publication Date: 2006/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.9.2522
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
MIMO,  polarization diversity,  space-time coading,  MIMO eigenmode transmission,  singular value decomposition (SVD),  

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Summary: 
This paper introduces a novel MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) communication system having orthogonal dual polarization diversity branches. We have designed a dual polarized circular patch antenna which has two orthogonal polarization ports such as vertical polarization (V) and horizontal polarization (H) on its metal surface. This design makes it works as two independent antennas in multipath environments. By using two dual polarized antennas at both the transmitter and receiver, we designed a dual-polarization 44 MIMO experiment system. This system can be used to investigate the performance of various MIMO transmission methods as well as the performance of adaptive algorithms in indoor multipath environments. To investigate the performance of our experiment system, we carried out a number of MIMO transmission experiments such as space-time-coded transmission having two parallel streams and MIMO eigenmode transmission. We will show the results of those experiments and discuss the advantages of using polarization diversity in MIMO communication system for next generation broadband wireless communication.