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The particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique is employed to design MIMO arrays for superior capacity. A channel model based on the method of moments solution of the electric field integral equation is utilized with PSO for arrays of dipole elements. Freestanding and printed dipole arrays are analyzed and optimized. Their adaptive performance in the MIMO channel is compared. Numerical results in the form of mean capacity, including comparisons with genetic algorithm results and measurements, are given. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 333–337, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.24027 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The performance of printed dipole arrays in the MIMO channel is investigated using a channel model based on the Method of Moments solution of the electric-field integral equation. Comparisons with freestanding dipoles are given in terms of channel capacity. Effects of the electrical properties (such as the dielectric thickness and permittivity) on the MIMO capacity are explored. Various dielectric-substrate configurations yielding high-capacity Ml MO arrays are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scaling results for the sum capacity of the multiple access, uplink channel are provided for a flat-fading environment, with multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) links, when there is interference from other cells. The classical MIMO scaling regime is considered in which the number of antennas per user and per base station grow large together. Utilizing the known characterizations of the limiting eigenvalue distributions of large random matrices, the asymptotic behavior of the sum capacity of the system is characterized for an architecture in which the base stations cooperate in the joint decoding process of all users (macrodiversity). This asymptotic sum capacity is compared with that of the conventional scenario in which the base stations only decode the users in their cells. For the case of base station cooperation, an interesting ‘resource pooling’ phenomenon is observed: in some cases, the limiting performance of a macrodiversity multiuser network has the same asymptotic behavior as that of a single-user MIMO link with an equivalent amount of pooled received power. This resource pooling phenomenon allows us to derive an elegant closed-form expression for the sum capacity of a new version of Wyner's classical model of a cellular network, in which MIMO links are incorporated into the model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]