Capacity of the broadband dual-orthogonal polarized MIMO Land Mobile Satellite (LMS) channel: Channel modeling and influenced factors analysis

Abstract Generally, the channel capacity of a MIMO system is closely related to its Channel Characteristic Matrix (CCM). In most current studies, the CCMs are formed by an independent identical distribution (i.i.d) model with Rayleigh or Rice distribution and nevertheless incomplete and inaccurate to describe a Broadband Dual-orthogonal Polarized MIMO Land Mobile Satellite (BDM-LMS) channel. In this paper, we build up the BDM-LMS channel model combining a 4-states broadband LMS channel model, time selective fading features, Channel Covariance Information (CCI) model and polarization correlation between antennas. Modeling steps of the channel model are introduced. The main emphasis is placed on the effects of the factors on the channel capacity in BDM-LMS system, such as antenna numbers, temporal correlations, terminal environments, elevation angles and polarization correlations between the DPAs. We provide simulation results to illustrate the effects of these factors through comparisons of the transmit rate, Ergodic Capacity and Outage Capacity. Moreover, the MIMO outage capacity advantages, indicating the benefits of MIMO compared with SISO systems under the same channel condition, are also studied under i.i.d and BDM-LMS channel.