ENHANCED CHANNEL SIMULATOR FOR EFFICIENT ANTENNA EVALUATION
First Claim
1. A method of simulating a propagation channel, comprising:
- obtaining channel power angular distribution;
generating time-varying channel realization sequence using the actual antenna radiation pattern;
adding antenna element isolation effect to said time-varying channel realization sequence; and
applying baseband abstraction to generate system metrics.
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for channel simulation is disclosed. The claimed invention provides method and apparatus 1200 to simulate a propagation channel, particularly a multiple-input-multiple-input (MIMO) channel. The claimed invention further provides a method and apparatus for efficient optimization of antenna by the enhanced channel simulation. The claimed invention takes both antenna characteristics and channel characteristics as inputs, and output time-varying channel realizations to generate the system metrics as the optimization target for antenna under optimization. The claimed invention advantageous provides enhanced channel simulation to meet the accuracy requirement of antenna evaluation.
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10 Claims
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1. A method of simulating a propagation channel, comprising:
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obtaining channel power angular distribution; generating time-varying channel realization sequence using the actual antenna radiation pattern; adding antenna element isolation effect to said time-varying channel realization sequence; and applying baseband abstraction to generate system metrics. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method of evaluating and optimizing antenna design, comprising:
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defining antenna structure and material parameters as a population of genetic algorithm; generating antenna characteristics by one or more electromagnetic computational methods; computing system metrics of the antenna characteristics by a channel simulator; choosing a fitness function as system metrics to generate a new population; and obtaining one more optimized antenna structure and material parameters. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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