New MIMO OTA figures of merit

Diverse standardized test results for MIMO OTA evaluation obtained through 3GPP/CTIA round robin campaigns with mode-stirred reverberation chambers are used to determine novel figures of merit that, using throughput as the basic parameters, are able to distinguish in a simple way a good from a bad MIMO device and also rank different DUTs' performances respect to maximum MIMO/SISO conducted throughput. Results show that the new figures of merit can provide a clear indication of the ability (or disability) of the MIMO device to maintain throughput when under a variety of situations (under stress) and therefore serve the goal for MIMO OTA compliance testing standardization.