naa a22 4500 510792448 CHVBK 20180411083324.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11277-012-0954-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11277-012-0954-2 Hardware Simulator Design for MIMO Propagation Channel on Shipboard at 2.2GHz [Elektronische Daten] [Bachir Habib, Hanna Farhat, Gheorghe Zaharia, Ghaïs El Zein] A wireless communication system can be tested either in actual conditions or with a hardware simulator reproducing actual conditions. With a hardware simulator it is possible to freely simulate a desired radio channel, making it possible to test "on table” mobile radio equipments. This paper presents new architectures for the digital block of a hardware simulator of MIMO propagation channels. This simulator can be used for LTE and WLAN IEEE 802.11ac applications, in indoor and outdoor environments. However, in this paper, specific architectures of the digital block of the simulator for shipboard environment are presented. A hardware simulator must reproduce the behavior of the radio propagation channel. Thus, a measurements campaign has been conducted to obtain the impulse responses of the shipboard channel using a channel sounder designed and realized at IETR. After the presentation of the channel sounder, the channel impulse responses are described and implemented. Then, the new architectures of the digital block of the hardware simulator, implemented on a Xilinx Virtex-IV FPGA are presented. The accuracy, the occupation on the FPGA and the latency of the architectures are analyzed. European Union, 2012 Channel sounder nationallicence Hardware simulator nationallicence Radio channel nationallicence MIMO nationallicence FPGA nationallicence Habib Bachir Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, IETR, UMR CNRS 6164, 35708, Rennes, France aut Farhat Hanna Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, IETR, UMR CNRS 6164, 35708, Rennes, France aut Zaharia Gheorghe Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, IETR, UMR CNRS 6164, 35708, Rennes, France aut El Zein Ghaïs Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, IETR, UMR CNRS 6164, 35708, Rennes, France aut Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 71/4(2013-08-01), 2535-2561 0929-6212 71:4<2535 2013 71 11277 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0954-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0954-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Habib Bachir Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, IETR, UMR CNRS 6164, 35708, Rennes, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Farhat Hanna Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, IETR, UMR CNRS 6164, 35708, Rennes, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zaharia Gheorghe Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, IETR, UMR CNRS 6164, 35708, Rennes, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- El Zein Ghaïs Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, IETR, UMR CNRS 6164, 35708, Rennes, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Wireless Personal Communications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 71/4(2013-08-01), 2535-2561 0929-6212 71:4<2535 2013 71 11277 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer