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Abstract

Antenna characteristics including mutual coupling and polarization/depolarization have great effects on the performance of Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In this paper, new close-form expressions of signal vector, signal power and signal correlation incorporating mutual coupling and polarization/depolarization are derived firstly. On this basis, we presents a new MIMO channel model, which takes into account antenna effects such as mutual coupling and antenna polarization, as well as propagation effects like scattering, clustering and channel depolarization. In particular, the detailed expressions of a 2×2 MIMO channel considering mutual coupling and polarization configurations of slanted ±45° and V/H are derived. Finally, these expressions are applied on the propagation scene of suburban macro cellular to analyze the channel correlation and capacity, which is very helpful in designing and optimizing a MIMO system.

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