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Efficient Antenna Description for MIMO Channel Modelling and Estimation Markus Landmann1 and Giovanni Del Galdo2 Ilmenau University of Technology 1. Measurements Engineering Laboratory 2. Communications Research Laboratory P.O. Box 10056, 98684 Ilmenau, Germany {markus.landmann, giovanni.delgaldo}@tu-ilmenau.de Phone: +49 (3677) 69-1160, Fax: +49 (3677) 69-1113 Abstract— Geometry-based MIMO channel modelling and high-resolution parameter estimation are applications in which a precise description of the radiation pattern of the antenna arrays is required. In this contribution we propose an efficient representation of the polarimetric antenna response, which we refer to as the Effective Aperture Distribution Function (EADF). This reduced description permits us to efficiently interpolate the beam pattern to gather the antenna response for an arbitrary direction in azimuth and elevation. Moreover, the EADF provides a continuous description of the array manifold and its derivatives with respect to azimuth and elevation. The latter is valuable for the performance evaluation of an antenna array as well as for gradient-based parameter estimation techniques. I. INTRODUCTION A precise antenna description, namely its beam pattern with respect to the two polarizations, plays a major role in the wireless channel description, modelling and estimation. Traditionally the polarimetric beam pattern is stored as a matrix in the azimuth and elevation domain,