Outline

Feature deep dive: LTE69 transmit diversity for two antennas

Basic concepts: fading and diversity

Basic notation

Spatial diversity concept

Formulation: transmit/receive diversity, array gain

Performance: uncorrelated fading

The Alamouti code and SFBC

Basics of link adaptation

Performance: simulations and field measurements

For internal use

RL30 PAS service for Softbank Mobile / LTE69 feature deep dive / V_1.2
Configuration aspects and related PM counters.
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Formulation: transmit/receive diversity, array gain

• Basic assumption: noise is uncorrelated among antennas,

• Receive diversity only: SIMO system (fixed channel):

• Maximum ratio combining (MRC):

• For MRC, channel estimate is required at the receiver,

• Combined noise has power

• SNR after combining becomes

• SNR gain equals

• This is commonly called array gain. For two antennas, SNR is on average 3 dB larger than in single antenna case.
For internal use
RL30 PAS service for Softbank Mobile / LTE69 feature deep dive / V_1.2
12 © Nokia Siemens Networks 2012 NWS LTE Radio Access Network Engineering / Eduardo Zacarías B./ April 2012