Maximum joint transmit-receive MRC gain with antennas exciting spherical vector wave modes up to order l

Derived is the maximum joint transmit and receive maximum ratio combining (MRC) diversity gain in arbitrary MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) wireless propagation channels and the corresponding transmit and receive antenna coefficients. Also provided are numerical examples addressing two generic MIMO channel models based on the Kronecker correlation model with Laplacian angle-of-arrival (AoA) and angle-of-departure (AoD) distributions. In the analysis, spherical vector wave multipole modes of order l are considered, including both TE and TM modes. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]