Wideband and MIMO Measurements in Wooded and Open Areas
01 January 2005
To demonstrate a real-time, mobile, peer to peer, ad-hoc networked MIMO system in a realistic tactical environment, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has instituted a program called Mobile Network MIMO. The first stage of this program is to demonstrate such a system in a rural foliated environment using MIMO equipped nodes using an ad hoc network. For any particular link both nodes are naturally at ground level. Such node placement necessitates a channel measurement and modeling effort to determine quantities such as spatial correlations, delay spread as well as propagation loss.