Abstract
This paper clarifies the influence of the antenna configuration on the achievable throughput in a real indoor propagation environment for 2-by-2 single-user (SU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in the Long Term Evolution (LTE)-Advanced uplink using single carrier-based radio access. In indoor experiments conducted in an office at walking speed, we consider four antenna configurations: co-polarized antennas with a long or small separation, cross-polarized antenna, and a distributed antenna arrangement. The experimental results show that when rank-2 MIMO spatial multiplexing is applied, the cross-polarized antenna configuration achieves a higher user throughput than the other antenna configurations. Furthermore, we show that when closed-loop rank-1 precoding is applied, the cross-polarized antenna configuration is effective in stably achieving a relatively high throughput regardless of the tilt angle of the mobile station transmitter antenna, although the other antenna configurations indicate better throughput under ideal antenna-tilt angle conditions.
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