MIMO transmission and reception techniques using three-element ESPAR antennas

Author

Alrabadi, Osama N. ; Papadias, Constantinos B. ; Kalis, Antonis ; Marchetti, Nicola ; Prasad, Ramjee

Author_Institution

Athens Inf. Technol. (AIT), Broadband Wireless & Sensor Networks Group (BWiSE), Athens

Volume

13

Issue

4

fYear

2009

fDate

4/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

236

Lastpage

238

Abstract

A novel scheme for spatially multiplexing two BPSK signals using a 3-element ESPAR (electronically steerable parasitic array radiator) antenna was reported in. In this paper we first optimize the set of loads controlling the parasitic elements within the transmission mode by maximizing the outage capacity. We also propose different reception techniques for spatially demultiplexing real and complex signals (using the same set of loads). The proposed transmission and reception schemes are evaluated in an indoor peer-to-peer mobile ad-hoc channel via simulations, where each ad-hoc node is equipped with a 3-element ESPAR terminal.

Keywords

MIMO communication; ad hoc networks; antenna arrays; multiplexing; BPSK signals; ESPAR antennas; MIMO transmission; multiplexing; peer-to-peer mobile ad-hoc channel; reception techniques; Binary phase shift keying; Demultiplexing; Electronic mail; Impedance; Information technology; MIMO; Peer to peer computing; Radio frequency; Transmitting antennas; Wireless sensor networks; Ad-hoc, ESPAR, spatial (de)multiplexing.;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2009.082190

Filename

4815068