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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

Development of Millimeter-Wave Mobile Camera and Performance Improvement in Outdoor LOS Environment

Shinichi SUZUKI, Takayuki NAKAGAWA, Tetsuomi IKEDA

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The Millimeter-wave Mobile Camera (MiMoCam) developed by NHK STRL uses millimeter-wave band (42 GHz/55 GHz) to transmit Hi-Vision TV picture with high quality and low latency. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology which uses a number of antennas at both the transmitter and receiver can be adapted to use to transmit higher quality Hi-Vision TV picture. The camera was intended to be used in a studio environment where there is a high degree of multi-path, however there are also many requests for the MiMoCam to be used outdoor. This will present a different channel statistics where the camera will be operating in a near line-of-sight (LOS) environment without much reflected waves. We have conducted an outdoor transmission test and measured the outdoors transmission performance of the proposed MIMO system to clarify the possibility of using the MiMoCam in outdoor environment. This paper introduces the features of the MiMoCam system and the MIMO transmission technique used in the MiMoCam and presents the findings of this outdoor test. It was also confirmed that channel correlation of the MIMO propagation channels were suppressed by using orthogonally polarized waves and bit error rate (BER) characteristics with respect to the average receiving carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) was improved. Finally, we could find the feasibility of the MiMoCam outdoor operation from these results.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E93-A No.11 pp.2099-2107
Publication Date
2010/11/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E93.A.2099
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems)
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