OFDM-MIMO implementation in Line Of Sight microwave/millimeter wave link

Baruch Cyzs baruch_cyzs@hotmail.com

Introduction
Implementation of OFDM-MIMO in line of sight microwave link Description of hardware prototype of mm wave PTP microwave that employs OFDMMIMO. Important Implementation issues in microwave link that employs OFDM-MIMO

The MIMO Spatial multiplexing implementation

The MIMO spatial implementation exploits random independent and identical distributed (iid) channel. The orthogonality of the channel is usually achieved by existing of reach scattering. Spatial multiplexing suffer degradation in its performance if significant direct path (LOS) exists in the Rician channel. LOS microwave link cannot implement MIMO since it relies mainly on strong LOS component

The Spatial Multiplexing principles in LOS link

The receiver antenna array is located in the near field zone of the transmitter antenna array. The spherical wave front from each transmitter antenna causes phase difference at the receiver antennas. LOS Spatial Multiplexing exploits this phase difference to grant orthogonality to the link channel for implementation of spatial multiplexing.

The Near Field multiplexing

The receiving array is located in the near field of the transmitting array. Since the wave front is not planar there is phase gradient upon the receiving array. If the phase gradient is set to certain predetermined value the link channel becomes orthogonal.

Geometry orthogonalization

R R

Linear antenna array requirement full rank condition

R
d R

n antennas
R
d R

Phase difference between R and R: 360/(2*n) in optimal orthogonal condition

d opt

nR 1 4 2n

R
n

Basic Block diagram - dual antenna arrays

x1 V11

x1

H11 H12

y1

U11 U21

y1

V21

H21
x2 V12 V22
Tx Beam former

x2

y2

U12
U22
Rx Beam former

y2

H22

Diversity Gain

Channel

Separation

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Singular Value Decomposition

time domain y (t ) h (t ) * x (t ) z (t ) f requncy domain y Hx z y U V U
y
H H

x z
H

y V

x U

The de-multiplexing process

y '1 y '2 y '3

1 2

x'1

z '1 z '3

x '2 z '2

3 x'3

Noise statistics has not changed (unitary rotation) Singular values represent virtual gain

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