Robustness of statistical antenna selection for collaborated MIMO reception: A feasibility study

Abstract

Collaborated multiple-input multiple-output reception is studied in this letter. This system employs multiple mobile stations (MSs) to receive signals from a base station, and then share their received signals among collaborated MSs. One of important research topic for this system is MS selection for collaboration. This letter presents the relation between the error rate performance of this system and antenna arrangements of the MS side in actual environments. The results suggest that MSs in collaboration can remain the same in terms of long-term average performance.