TY - GEN
T1 - Spectral efficiency analysis of distributed antenna systems for in-building mobile communication
AU - Alade, Temitope
AU - Zhu, Huiling
AU - Osman, Hassan
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In wireless systems, providing high data rate wireless services is a major challenge particularly in high building environments. The system performance is impaired by co-channel interference due to the need to reuse the limited available spectrum. In this environment, distributed antenna systems (DASs) can provide adequate coverage and high speed data services in the presence of multipath fading and co-channel interference by optimally combining the same signal from several antennas. This paper proposes and investigates the impacts of DAS for uplink transmission in high-rise buildings; where remote antenna units (RAUs) are deployed on each floor to reduce the radio transmission distance while at the same time exploiting spatial diversity. The RAUs are connected to a central unit (CU) where received signals are processed. The performance of the system is analysed in terms of achievable spectral efficiency using a propagation channel model derived from multi-floor in-building path loss values retrieved from measurement data. This model accounts for the propagation between different floors and ceilings and includes possible reflections from surrounding buildings. The effects of different numbers of receive antennas per floor and deployment conditions are investigated. Numerical results obtained suggest that the proposed scheme can facilitate better use of the available radio spectrum and provide higher data rates for indoor mobile terminals (MTs).
AB - In wireless systems, providing high data rate wireless services is a major challenge particularly in high building environments. The system performance is impaired by co-channel interference due to the need to reuse the limited available spectrum. In this environment, distributed antenna systems (DASs) can provide adequate coverage and high speed data services in the presence of multipath fading and co-channel interference by optimally combining the same signal from several antennas. This paper proposes and investigates the impacts of DAS for uplink transmission in high-rise buildings; where remote antenna units (RAUs) are deployed on each floor to reduce the radio transmission distance while at the same time exploiting spatial diversity. The RAUs are connected to a central unit (CU) where received signals are processed. The performance of the system is analysed in terms of achievable spectral efficiency using a propagation channel model derived from multi-floor in-building path loss values retrieved from measurement data. This model accounts for the propagation between different floors and ceilings and includes possible reflections from surrounding buildings. The effects of different numbers of receive antennas per floor and deployment conditions are investigated. Numerical results obtained suggest that the proposed scheme can facilitate better use of the available radio spectrum and provide higher data rates for indoor mobile terminals (MTs).
KW - Co-channel interference
KW - Distributed antenna system (DAS)
KW - Multi-floor in-building propagation
KW - spectral efficiency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84863411318&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134448
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134448
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863411318
SN - 9781424492688
T3 - GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
BT - 2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2011
T2 - 54th Annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference: "Energizing Global Communications", GLOBECOM 2011
Y2 - 5 December 2011 through 9 December 2011
ER -