MIMO antenna performance assessment based on open source software defined radio

Buey, Cyril; Magounaki, Theoni; Ferrero, Fabien; Ratajczak, Philippe; Lizzi, Leonardo; Kaltenberger, Florian
EUCAP 2017, 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 19-24 March 2017, Paris, France

This paper presents a low-cost measurement method for MIMO antenna performance assessment based on the open-source OpenAirInterface initiative. A first measurement
is presented with a prototype with 8 antennas at 2:6 GHz integrated into a 140x140x40mm femto cell and using Laser Direct Structuring (LDS) technique. The setup is validated trough a beamforming gain measurement in a MISO 4x1 configuration
in LTE TDD mode. We achieved the expected 6 dB beamforming gain between a SISO and 4x1 MISO configuration.

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Type:
Conférence
City:
Paris
Date:
2017-03-19
Department:
Systèmes de Communication
Eurecom Ref:
5117
Copyright:
© Cambridge university press. Personal use of this material is permitted. The definitive version of this paper was published in EUCAP 2017, 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, 19-24 March 2017, Paris, France
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