2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band Planar Antennas Mounted on WLAN Card for 3-MIMO-OFDM Systems

Author

Ando, Atsuya ; Kita, Naoki ; Yamada, Wataru

Author_Institution

NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper proposes a 2.4/5-GHz dual-band horizontally-polarized planar antenna for use in a 3-MIMO antenna configuration OFDM wireless LAN (WLAN) system. The proposed antenna provides a voltage standing wave ratio of 2 in the 2.4-2.5 and 4.9-6 GHz bands when printed on a printed circuit board for commercial PCMCIA or WLAN cards and inserted into a notebook PC. The capacities and correlation coefficients of 3times3 MIMO channels in an indoor multipath LOS/NLOS environment were measured. The results show that the proposed planar antenna is superior to the conventional monopole antenna with respect to channel capacity when polarization matching between the base station and personal station antennas is obtained.

Keywords

MIMO communication; OFDM modulation; channel capacity; monopole antenna arrays; multifrequency antennas; multipath channels; planar antenna arrays; wireless LAN; 3-MIMO-OFDM systems; WLAN Card; channel capacity; dual-band planar antennas; frequency 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz; frequency 4.9 GHz to 6 GHz; monopole antenna; multipath LOS-NLOS environment; personal station antennas; polarization matching; printed circuit board; voltage standing wave ratio; wireless LAN system; Antenna measurements; Channel capacity; Dual band; MIMO; OFDM; Planar arrays; Polarization; Printed circuits; Voltage; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2006. VTC-2006 Fall. 2006 IEEE 64th

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0062-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0063-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCF.2006.16

Filename

4109281