Evolution Trends of Wireless MIMO Channel Modeling towards IMT-Advanced

Chia-Chin CHONG  Fujio WATANABE  Koshiro KITAO  Tetsuro IMAI  Hiroshi INAMURA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E92-B   No.9   pp.2773-2788
Publication Date: 2009/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E92.B.2773
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: INVITED SURVEY PAPER
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Keyword: 
channel model,  IMT-Advanced,  MIMO,  multipath,  spatial diversity,  spatial multiplexing,  

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Summary: 
This paper describes an evolution and standardization trends of the wireless channel modeling activities towards IMT-Advanced. After a background survey on various channel modeling approaches is introduced, two well-known multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channel models for cellular systems, namely, the 3GPP/3GPP2 Spatial Channel Model (SCM) and the IMT-Advanced MIMO Channel Model (IMT-Adv MCM) are compared, and their main similarities are pointed out. The performance of MIMO systems is greatly influenced by the spatial-temporal correlation properties of the underlying MIMO channels. Here, we investigate the spatial-temporal correlation characteristics of the 3GPP/3GPP2 SCM and the IMT-Adv MCM in term of their spatial multiplexing and spatial diversity gains. The main goals of this paper are to summarize the current state of the art, as well as to point out the gaps in the wireless channel modeling works, and thus hopefully to stimulate research in these areas.