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Description
Diversity and MIMO operation are critical to most modern wireless communication systems. USRPs have been MIMO-capable since the USRP1 in 2004, and many other SDRs are MIMO-capable, yet most GNU Radio users don’t take advantage of those extra SMA ports. This talk aims to fix that.
We will start with a refresher on multipath propagation, with an emphasis on modeling its effects within GNU Radio. From there we will have a simple introduction to diversity and MIMO concepts, with a survey of the various types and applications including selection diversity, MRC/MRT, beamforming, space-time coding, spatial multiplexing, and Massive MIMO.
Finally, we will walk through the creation of a simple MIMO communication system in GNU Radio, and run the flowgraphs live. We will experiment with the various propagation impairments and system parameters to get an intuitive feel for real-world scenarios.
