On Issues about the Application of MIMO in Mobile Cellular Communications

The convenience of mobile communications and the increasing demand for higher data transmitting rate have motivated people to explore more efficient methods of signal transmission because of the limited spectral resource. Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) is a high spectral efficient method and the theoretical capacity of a MIMO channel increases linearly with the number of transmitting/receiving antennas under the ideal conditions. We can adopt MIMO technology in the new generation of mobile cellular communication systems, which is IP based and requires high data rate to support multimedia services. Although much progress has been made in MIMO area recently, there are some problems in its practical application, especially in cellular application. In this paper we will analyze the channel model, the capacity and the technology of MIMO, and then we will focus on the issues of MIMO application in mobile cellular system by the Monte Carlo simulation and give the available solution schemes for the issues.