Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Transmission and reception with multiple antennas: theoretical foundations
Communications and Information Theory
Outcome of an Asymmetric Coupling Antennas over a 2 x 2 MIMO System
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Majorization and matrix-monotone functions in wireless communications
Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory
Space-time coding and processing with differential Chaos shift keying scheme
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Efficient joint two-dimensional angle and polarization estimation with crossed dipoles
ICICS'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information, communications and signal processing
The application of hybrid space-polarization block coding
WTS'10 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Wireless telecommunications symposium
A scheme for fully polarimetric MIMO multiuser detection
Asilomar'09 Proceedings of the 43rd Asilomar conference on Signals, systems and computers
Limited feedback beamforming systems for dual-polarized MIMO channels
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
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Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems employ spatial multiplexing to increase spectral efficiency or transmit diversity to improve link reliability. The performance of these signaling strategies is highly dependent on MIMO channel characteristics, which, in turn, depend on antenna height and spacing and richness of scattering. In practice, large antenna spacings are often required to achieve significant multiplexing or diversity gain. The use of dual-polarized antennas (polarization diversity) is a promising cost- and space-effective alternative, where two spatially separated uni-polarized antennas are replaced by a single antenna structure employing orthogonal polarizations. This paper investigates the performance of spatial multiplexing and transmit diversity (Alamouti (see IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol.16, p.1451-58, Oct. 1998) scheme) in MIMO wireless systems employing dual-polarized antennas. In particular, we derive estimates for the uncoded average symbol error rate of spatial multiplexing and transmit diversity and identify channel conditions where the use of polarization diversity yields performance improvements. We show that while improvements in terms of symbol error rate of up to an order of magnitude are possible in the case of spatial multiplexing, the presence of polarization diversity generally incurs a performance loss for transmit diversity techniques. Finally, we provide simulation results to demonstrate that our estimates closely match the actual symbol error rates.