Outdoor Urban Propagation Experiment of a Handset MIMO Antenna with a Human Phantom Located in a Browsing Stance

• Published in: 2007 IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference pp. 849 - 853
• Main Authors: Yamamoto, A., Hayashi, T., Ogawa, K., Olesen, K., Nielsen, J.O., Naizheng Zheng, Pedersen, G.F.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-09-2007
• Subjects: Antennas and propagation; Cities and towns; Humans; Imaging phantoms; MIMO; Performance evaluation; Radio propagation; Telephone sets; Testing; Urban areas
• ISBN: 9781424402632; 1424402638
• ISSN: 1090-3038; 2577-2465
• DOI: 10.1109/VETECF.2007.186

Outdoor radio propagation experiments are presented at 2.4 GHz, using a handset MIMO antenna with two monopoles and two planar inverted-F antennas (PIFAs), adjacent to a human phantom in browsing stance. The propagation test was performed in an urban area of a city, which resulted in non line-of-sight (NLOS) situations. In our investigation, the 4-by-4 MIMO and SISO channel capacities for the reception signals were evaluated. These measurements show that the handset MIMO antenna, close to the human operator, is capable of MIMO reception.