Space-Time MIMO Channel Modelling using Angular Power Distributions

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a MIMO channel model for generating the channel gains between arbitrary arrays of transmitter and receiver antennas, for a general class of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) channels. The channel scattering environment is defined by a double directional angular distribution describing the power transferred from transmitter aperture to receiver aperture in each direction. We propose several parametrized bivariate distributions that are consistent with univariate scatterer distributions separately observed at the transmitter and receiver. We derive the second order statistics of the channel gains in terms of the double directional power distribution and characterize a sample system performance as a function of distribution parameters.