On the MIMO Capacity for Distributed System under Composite Rayleigh/Rician Fading and Shadowing González-Aurioles, Santiago Padilla De la Torre, José Luis Padilla De La Torre, Pablo Valenzuela Valdes, Juan Francisco González-Macias, Juan C. MIMO systems Wireless channels Shadowing effects Wireless channels are commonly affected by short-term fading and long-term fading (shadowing). The shadowing effects must be taken into account also when mobility is present in the wireless scenario. Using a composite fading model, the total channel capacity can be studied for a scenario with short-term Rayleigh fading along with shadowing. This work provides quantitative results for these kinds of scenarios with Rayleigh fading and shadowing, considering also multiple-input and multiple-output systems, which have not been previously reported. In addition, the channel capacity has been studied in depth in its relation with the shadowing level, signal to noise ratio, and the number of elements in the multiple-input and multiple-output system. Moreover, the channel performance with shadowing has been compared to the one without it. Furthermore, Rician model with shadowing is studied and its results are reported. In addition, correlated and experimental results are provided. It is identified that the distributed MIMO systems can benefit from shadowing in Rician channels. This advantage has not been reported previously. This type of fading is proposed for massive MIMO by others and our results open the door to emulate massive MIMO on a reverberation chamber. 2015-06-24T11:40:02Z 2015-06-24T11:40:02Z 2015 journal article González-Aurioles, S.; et al. On the MIMO Capacity for Distributed System under Composite Rayleigh/Rician Fading and Shadowing. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2015: 105017 (2015). [] 1687-5869 1687-5877 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/36739 10.1155/2015/105017 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Hindawi Publishing Corporation