MIMO geometry and antenna design for high capacity and improved coverage in mm-wave systems

Abstract

We show a way to optimize the capacity and at the same time achieve high coverage in LOS for a mm-wave system indoor. We optimize MIMO with regard to maximum Shannon capacity for a pure LOS channel. We describe the general procedure in order to maximize the capacity for our considered geometry, which consists of a circular arc array at the transmitter and a uniform linear array (ULA) at the receiver. The method is based on the optimization of the interelement distances at the transmitter and the receiver. High coverage is obtained with the use of the circular geometry and beamforming. We propose an example mm-wave system in the 70 GHz portion of the E-band (71-76) GHz. The results show that the proposed system is able to achieve full coverage in LOS as well as high capacity, with practical dimensions. © 2013 Tommaso Cella et al.