2012-02-23
On the Performance of MIMO Systems for LTE Downlink in Underground Gold Mine
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 30, 59-66, 2012
Abstract
This paper deals with the challenges related to evaluating the performance of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) system within an underground mine environment at 2.4 GHz. Actual measured channels parameters have been used in simulation tools based on Agilent SystemVue software. The results suggest that LTE is able in practice to support multi stream transmission with very high data rates in an underground mine gallery.
Citation
Ismail Ben Mabrouk, Larbi Talbi, Mourad Nedil, and Tayeb Denidni, "On the Performance of MIMO Systems for LTE Downlink in Underground Gold Mine," Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 30, 59-66, 2012.
doi:10.2528/PIERL11122704
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