MIMO技术的简介

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Abstract—Mobile wireless communication has become one of the most important aspects of our daily life. The continuously increasing usage has imposed great pressure upon telecommunication system where the availability of channel capacity and spectral resources are limited. Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) is considered as one of the possible solutions to the above problem and has attracted considerable attention among researchers and engineers in the field of mobile communication due to the great advantages it exhibits. In recent years, MIMO technology has been developed into more sophisticated forms and utilized in some common communication devices around us. This report is intended to provide readers with a brief review of the historical and technological developments of MIMO, and its applications.

I. INTRODUCTION

Our wireless communication systems have undergone remarkable developments and progresses in the past 20 years, from 1G to 4G and the upcoming 5G. Such systems have provided our life with significant conveniences which were otherwise impossible and unachievable before the 1980s. However, under the condition of limited bandwidth resources and channel capacity, the developing communication scheme is unable to meet the fast growing demand from users of mobile devices. In other words, our communication system has somewhat attained its bottleneck and needs some new technology to enhance its performance. On the other hand, MIMO equipped with modern efficient signal processing techniques and processing hardware demonstrates prominent characteristics that could be taken to mitigate the above problems. MIMO can be defined, in simple terms, as a system which consists of multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver sides [6]. A systematic diagram of MIMO is illustrated by Figure 1.

Figure 1. Systematic diagram of a MIMO system

The underlying fact which enables MIMO to attract intense attention is that it could exploit the advantages of beamforming gain, spatial diversity and spatial multiplexing to enhance the performance of a communication system without extra consumption of spectral resources.

The content of this report is organized in six separate sections. Section II offers readers a set of abbreviations used throughout the report. Section III illustrates the historical developments and milestones of MIMO from theory to implementations. Section IV introduces, in general sense, how MIMO functions and achieves the aforementioned advantages. Section V categorizes MIMO into various classes based on the properties it composes and some comparisons among them would be made. Section VI provides some examples of application of MIMO in modern communication scheme. Finally, a brief conclusion will be drawn in Section VI. Additional information can be found by referring to the Appendix section.

II. TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS

The following table (Table 1) lists a set of commonly

A BRIEF REVIEW ON MIMO TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS

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