%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Hardware MIMO Channel Simulator for Cooperative and Heterogeneous 5G Networks with VLC Signals
%+ Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (USEK)
%A Habib, Bachir
%A Baz, Badih
%Z Part 1: Wireless Technologies and Systems
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 14th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communication (WWIC)
%C Thessaloniki, Greece
%Y Lefteris Mamatas
%Y Panagiotis Papadimitriou
%Y Ibrahim Matta
%Y Yevgeni Koucheryavy
%3 Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
%V LNCS-9674
%P 171-183
%8 2016-05-25
%D 2016
%R 10.1007/978-3-319-33936-8_14
%K Hardware simulator
%K FPGA
%K MIMO
%K Wireless heterogeneous systems
%K Cooperative networks
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]Conference papers
%X This paper presents the design of an 8 × 8 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) hardware simulator for cooperative time-varying propagation channels (based on relays) using heterogeneous systems (LTE-A and 802.11ac) with Visible Light Communications (VLC) signals. The simulator reproduces a desired radio channel scenario and makes it possible to test “on table” different systems. It uses different impulse responses to cover many types of channels by merging TGn models, 3GPP-LTE models, outdoor-to-indoor measurements results and VLC models. An algorithm is introduced to convert the measured impulse responses from 200 MHz sample frequency to 50 MHz to be compatible with LTE-A signals. A specific architecture of the simulator digital block is presented to characterize 5G scenarios. The architecture is designed on a Xilinx Virtex-VII XC7VX690T Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Its accuracy and FPGA occupation are analyzed.
%G English
%Z TC 6
%Z WG 6.2
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01434850/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01434850/file/417220_1_En_14_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-01434850
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01434850
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