Experimental Investigation of Millimeter-Wave MIMO Channel Characteristics in Tunnel

A 28 GHz millimeter-wave (mm-wave) propagation measurement campaign was performed to predict the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel performance in a tunnel environment. Two kinds of polarization configurations were studied in this paper. In order to overcome the serious path loss (PL) of mm-wave propagation, a high gain directional horn antenna was used in the measurements of tunnel environment. The measurement results and simulation results at same specific locations are compared. The result of comparison indicates that the simulation model matches the measurement well. Then the MIMO capacity at other locations of the tunnel can be predicted by the simulation model. Further-more, it is inferred that the antenna array elements of horizontally polarized configuration have higher capacity than the vertically polarized under the constant signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).