Research Article
Space-Time Block Coding with Beamforming for Triple-Polarized Uniform Linear Array Systems
Table 1
Simulation parameters.
| System parameter | Value |
| Carrier frequency | 1.8 GHz | System bandwidth | 20 MHz | FFT size | 2048 | Number of data carriers | 1200 | Number of samples in CP | 144 | Subcarrier spacing | 15 KHz | Modulation | QPSK | Channel coding | No | MIMO configuration | 8A 3B(Tx) by 2A 3B(Rx) | Array spacing | Half-wavelength |
| Channel parameter | Value |
| Number of scatterers | Indoor: 64, Outdoor: 4 clusters with 16 scatterers per cluster (64 in total) | Scatterer radius | 10 m | Rx velocity | 3 km/h for indoor; 100 km/h for outdoor | Fading | Flat | XPD | 5.8 dB | Practical channel estimation | Zero-forcing |
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