Towards Efficient Spectrum Utilization with Polarization-Based Architectures

Space-polarization MIMO architectures are proposed as a contributing technology to advance efficient spectrum utilization. These architectures have the advantage of leveraging both space and polarization channel correlations, opening the door to diversities and to the effective application of technologies at both the transmit side and the receive side to support spectrum efficiency and sharing. In this paper the authors review some of their work associated with polarization and space-polarization architectures, including channel modeling, sounding and parameter estimation to assist in the development of frequency-selective parametric models for performance characterizations; wideband polarimetric signal suppression; adaptive transmission for interference avoidance; and linear precoding with adaptive power control for energy-efficient communications in packet erasure channels.