Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters) ›› 2013, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (5): 51-56.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(13)60089-8

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Mutual information assessment of LOS MIMO systems with reconfigurable antenna arrays

  

  1. 1. Science and Technology on Information Systems Engineering Laboratory, Beijing 100038, China 2. Wireless Technology Innovation Institute, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China 3. Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communication, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • Received:2013-01-07 Revised:2013-09-09 Online:2013-10-30 Published:2013-10-29
  • Contact: Jun-Jun GAO E-mail:gaojunjun1986@gmail.com
  • Supported by:
    The work was supported by the China Important National Science & Technology Specific Projects (2012ZX03001043-009, 2012ZX03006003-003), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61171105), and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education of China (NCET-11-0598), also by Telecommunications Science Technical Institute (Datang Telecommunication Technology and Industry Group).

Abstract: In presence of line-of-sight (LOS) propagation, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems can achieve maximum capacity over the whole signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region by deploying reconfigurable antenna arrays. In this paper, the moment generating function (MGF) formulas of the mutual information (MI) is obtained for LOS MIMO systems with reconfigurable arrays. Then the exact expression of the mean MI is derived in an easily evaluated form. The results show an excellent match between the theoretical curves and the Monte-Carlo simulations.

Key words: multiple-input multiple-output, line-of-sight, mutual information, reconfigurable antenna array, Wishart