| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/D037425/1 |
| Title: |
MIMO LAYERED SPACE-TIME SYSTEM WITH VIRTUAL RECEIVE ANTENNAS |
| Principal Investigator: |
So, Professor DKC |
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| Department: |
Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Manchester, The |
| Scheme: |
First Grant Scheme Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
02 May 2006 |
Ends: |
01 November 2008 |
Value (£): |
125,315
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| Digital Signal Processing |
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Wireless communication technology is becoming a daily necessity for the general public. With the explosive growth of internet usage and multimedia services, the demand for higher data rate wireless communication systems is soaring. However, conventional single antenna systems are reaching the limit and cannot satisfy this need. By using multiple transmit and receive antennas, MIMO Layered Space-Time (LST) systems exploit the additional spatial resource and can reach far beyond the limit of single antenna system. This technology, however, requires the number of receive antennas at least as many as the number of transmit antennas. Being limited in size at the mobile unit, such a requirement cannot be met easily and hinders the maturity of this promising technology. This project aims at reducing this stringent requirement by exploring the novel idea of virtual receive antennas. The signals from these virtual antennas are created by using some signal processing techniques on the actual received signals. The result of this research will allow feasible implementation and wider dissemination of the MIMO LST technology. This idea will be thoroughly investigated for different channel environments. The receiver architecture will be developed and its performance will be obtained by computer simulation. Preliminary study on practical implementation will also be conducted to allow further exploitation of this new idea in the future.
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http://www.man.ac.uk |