MIMO channel capacity based on reverberation chamber

Abstract

MIMO system is a promising technology for promoting the performance of communication. In order to simulate the multipath channel in real communication, a suitable measurement environment which is not only reliable but also repeatable is very important. The reverberation chamber is a kind of common electromagnetic test environment, and it has many outstanding advantages in MIMO system test. So in this paper, a simulation model of SISO system is set up by Ansoft HFSS, and the simulation results of channel capacity and channel characteristics were compared with measured results. The results were simulated and measured at 900MHz which is the typical operating frequency in communication system. The comparison shows that the model is reliable enough to be used for MIMO system.