A real-time multiple antenna element testbed for MIMO algorithm development and assessment

We have presented a real-time DSP-based testbed capable of implementing fairly advanced space-time MIMO architectures. Utility of the system was demonstrated by describing a real-time video application and showing SER performance of a simple space-time decoding scheme. In the future, we intend to write software for more advanced space-time algorithms to fully utilize the resources of the platform. Such effort will demonstrate real-world performance of existing algorithms and will allow a feasibility assessment of these proposed algorithms.