Antenna Selection for MIMO Systems in Correlated Channels with Diversity Technique

In recent years, due to the increasing demand of the data transmission rate, a lot of research based on Multiple- Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system is established. MIMO systems can increase the system capacity and improve transmission reliability. However, the multiple RF chains associated with multiple antennas are costly in terms of size, power and hardware. Antenna selection techniques have been applied in MIMO system design to reduce the system complexity and cost. In this paper, we consider two schemes of antenna selection in correlated Rayleigh channels i.e. the maximal ratio transmission and Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code technique. The simulation results illustrate that; the new antenna selection scheme can obtain performance close to the optimum selection with low computational complexity.

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