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Abstract

In a MIMO system, scattering is always an important problem since it is closely related to the channel capacity of system. In most of previous works, scattering was usually neglected so as to simplify the process of analysis. Therefore, it is really necessary to investigate and understand the scattering effect on capacity. To this end, scattering is taken into consideration in terms of channel capacity in this paper. From the antenna point of view, antenna element layout can be viewed as an optimization problem. To resolve this problem, a binary whale optimization algorithm (BWOA) is proposed. We investigate the effect of scattering environment on the capacity of a MIMO system and make comparison with an existing method in performance. The simulated results demonstrate that the nonuniform sampling method is able to efficiently improve the capacity of system even for poor scattering environment.

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Dr. Pengliang Yuan

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