An Experimental Evaluation and Its Analysis on Downlink MIMO Wireless Transmission Performance of LTE Field Trial in Specified Ubiquitous District

Manabu MIKAMI  Atsushi NAGATE  Kenji HOSHINO  Teruya FUJII  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E94-B    No.7    pp.2074-2081
Publication Date: 2011/07/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E94.B.2074
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Terrestrial Wireless Communication/Broadcasting Technologies
Keyword: 
LTE,  MIMO,  field experiment,  laboratory experiment,  

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Summary: 
Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, which is specified in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 8 and employs downlink multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission, is drawing attention as a promising next generation cellular mobile radio system due to its high spectral efficiency compared to the current High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) system. The authors performed a field trial of an LTE system that complies with 3GPP Release 8 in Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka, Japan, as a specified ubiquitous district project promoted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan. This paper first summarizes the field trial. Next, it describes the overview of the field trial system and reports the field experiment results on the downlink 22 MIMO wireless transmission. Finally, it compares the field experimental results to laboratory experimental results obtained with a hardware channel simulator using the channel model based on Recommendation ITU-R P.1816.