Degrees of freedom in multiple-antenna channels: a signal space approach
Poon, A.S.Y.
Brodersen, R.W.
Tse, D.N.C.
Corp. Technol. Group, Santa Clara, CA, USA;
This paper appears in: Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Feb. 2005
Volume: 51,
Issue: 2
On page(s): 523- 536
ISSN: 0018-9448
INSPEC Accession Number: 8258421
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TIT.2004.840892
Current Version Published: 2005-01-24
Abstract
Multiple-antenna systems that are limited by the area and geometry of antenna arrays, are considered. Given these physical constraints, the limit on the available number of spatial degrees of freedom is derived. The commonly used statistical multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) model is inadequate. Antenna theory is applied to take into account the area and geometry constraints, and to define the spatial signal space so as to interpret experimental channel measurements in an array-independent but manageable description of the physical environment. Based on these modeling strategies, for a spherical array of effective aperture A in a physical environment of angular spread |Ω| in solid angle, the number of spatial degrees of freedom is shown to be A|Ω| for uni-polarized antennas and 2A|Ω| for tri-polarized antennas. Together with the 2WT degrees of freedom for a system of bandwidth W transmitting in an interval T, the total degrees of freedom of a multiple-antenna channel is therefore 4WTA|Ω|.
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