Summary: 3rd AusCTW, Canberra, Australia, Feb. 4­5, 2002
On Capacity of Multi-antenna Wireless Channels: Effects of Antenna
Separation and Spatial Correlation
Thushara D. Abhayapala1
, Rodney A. Kennedy and Jaunty T.Y. Ho
Department of Telecommunications Engineering,
Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering,
The Australian National University,
Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
e-mail: Thushara.Abhayapala@anu.edu.au
Abstract -- The channel capacity of multi-element
communication systems in independent Rayleigh
channels has been shown to scale linearly with
the number of antennas. In reality, the signals re-
ceived by different receiver antennas can be cor-
related with each other due to the non-uniform
scattering environment and limited aperture of
the antenna system. In this paper, the effect of
spatial correlation between receiver antennas on
capacity is investigated for various scattering en-

Source: Abhayapala, Thushara D. - Department of Information Engineering, Australian National University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences