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In this paper, we propose a hybrid acoustic and magnetic induction (MI) based distributed MIMO system which utilizes MI waves to address the aforementioned synchronization problems. The synchronization time and errors can be reduced since MI communication has negligible signal propagation delays and large available bandwidth. To quantitatively analyze the improvement, we deduce the synchronization errors, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), effective communication time, and throughput of the proposed system. We implement and evaluate the proposed system first numerically and then experimentally using a software-defined testbed. Performance improvements and results are presented for two types of MIMO implementations, namely beamforming and space-time coding.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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In this paper, we propose a hybrid acoustic and magnetic induction (MI) based distributed MIMO system which utilizes MI waves to address the aforementioned synchronization problems. The synchronization time and errors can be reduced since MI communication has negligible signal propagation delays and large available bandwidth. To quantitatively analyze the improvement, we deduce the synchronization errors, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), effective communication time, and throughput of the proposed system. We implement and evaluate the proposed system first numerically and then experimentally using a software-defined testbed. Performance improvements and results are presented for two types of MIMO implementations, namely beamforming and space-time coding.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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