IMPLEMENTATIONAND EVALUATIONOF4x4MIMO FADINGSIMULATOR CONSIDERINGANTENNA CHARACTERISTICS

A 4x 4MIMO fading simulator (MIMO-FS) wasconstructed forthedevelopment ofMIMO products. ThisMIMO-FSconsists ofmulti-port up/down converters for 2.4/5.2GHz bandsandbaseband reconfigurable digital sig- nalprocessors whichallows theimplementation ofvarious MIMO channel models. Inthis paper, extended IEEE802.1 In channel modelincluding antenna characteristics andits hard- wareimplementation aregiven aswellasthesystem evalua- tion results. Keywords - MIMO,fading simulator, channel model, mu- tual coupling, hardware implementation.