Wong, KK;
Tong, KF;
Chen, Y;
Zhang, Y;
(2022)
Closed-form expressions for spatial correlation parameters for performance analysis of fluid antenna systems.
Electronics Letters
10.1049/ell2.12487.
(In press).
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Abstract
The emerging fluid antenna technology enables a high-density positionswitchable antenna in a small space to obtain enormous performance gains for wireless communications. To understand the theoretical performance of fluid antenna systems, it is important to account for the strong spatial correlation over the different positions (referred to as ‘ports’). Previous works used a classical, generalised correlation model to characterise the channel correlation among the ports but were limited by the lack of degree of freedom of the model to imitate the correlation structures in an actual antenna. In this letter, it is proposed to use a common correlation parameter and to choose it by setting the correlation coefficient of any two ports to be the same as the average correlation coefficient of an actual fluid antenna taking up a linear space. A closedform expression for the spatial correlation parameter is first derived assuming that the number of ports is large, and it is illustrated that the correlation parameter depends only on the size of the fluid antenna but not the port density. Simpler expressions are then obtained for small and large sizes of fluid antenna. The resulting model is finally used to study the performance of fluid antenna systems. Simulation results based on the proposed model are provided to confirm the promising performance of fluid antenna in single and multiuser environments.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Closed-form expressions for spatial correlation parameters for performance analysis of fluid antenna systems |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1049/ell2.12487 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.12487 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. Electronics Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Institution of Engineering and Technology This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147474 |
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