Abstract: In multi-antenna system, the correlations between the receiver antennas degrades the systems performance. In this paper, we propose a spatial decorrelation receiving technique in frequency-selective SIMO channels. A spatial-to-modal matrix is placed after the SIMO channel output to remove the correlations between the receiver antennas caused by the limited antenna separations. Simulation results of this newly proposed spatial decorrelation design demonstrate favourable BER improvement and better system performance.
Pages: 129-133
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