Further Steps Towards the Development of a Hardware Simulator for MIMO Radio Channels

Sylvie Picol (1) , Gheorghe Zaharia (1) , Ghaïs El Zein (1)

1 IETR - Institut d'Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes

The aim of the regional project SIMPAA2, which continues the research activities of the former national research SIMPAA project, is the realization of a hardware simulator of MIMO propagation channels for UMTS and WLAN applications. The simulator must reproduce the behavior of the radio propagation channel, thus making it possible to test "on table" the mobile radio equipments. The advantages are: low cost, short test duration, possibility to ensure the same test conditions in order to compare the performance of various equipments.

Mots clés: hardware simulator; MIMO propagation channel; UMTS; WLAN

Domaines: Autre

Sylvie Picol, Gheorghe Zaharia, Ghaïs El Zein. Further Steps Towards the Development of a Hardware Simulator for MIMO Radio Channels. IEEE 16th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2005. PIMRC 2005., Sep 2005, France. p. 557 - 561. ⟨hal-00175823⟩