title: The Capacity Gain of Orbital Angular Momentum Based Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output System.
abstract: Wireless communication using electromagnetic wave carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has attracted increasing interest in recent years, and its potential to increase channel capacity has been explored widely. In this paper, we compare the technique of using uniform linear array consist of circular traveling-wave OAM antennas for multiplexing with the conventional multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO) communication method, and numerical results show that the OAM based MIMO system can increase channel capacity while communication distance is long enough. An equivalent model is proposed to illustrate that the OAM multiplexing system is equivalent to a conventional MIMO system with a larger element spacing, which means OAM waves could decrease the spatial correlation of MIMO channel. In addition, the effects of some system parameters, such as OAM state interval and element spacing, on the capacity advantage of OAM based MIMO are also investigated. Our results reveal that OAM waves are complementary with MIMO method. OAM waves multiplexing is suitable for long-distance line-of-sight (LoS) communications or communications in open area where the multi-path effect is weak and can be used in massive MIMO systems as well.
authors.affiliation: College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
authors.forename: Zhuofan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
authors.forename: Shilie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.affiliation: College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
authors.forename: Yiling
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
authors.forename: Xiaofeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.affiliation: College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
authors.forename: Xianmin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang