Design and preliminary analysis of a pattern reconfigurable terminal MIMO antenna for receiving antenna selection

Author

Jiawen Sun ; Wenhua Chen ; Xin Wang ; Wanshun Jiang ; Zhenghe Feng

Author_Institution

Sci. & Technol. on Electron. Test & Meas. Lab., 41st Res. Inst. of CETC, Qingdao, China

Volume

5

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A newly-built broadband MIMO measurement platform in indoor environment is constructed. The platform is designed for measuring the S21 parameter between M transmitters and N receivers (M<;=8, N<;=8), which enables us to analyze the capacity of the radio propagation channel. A pattern reconfigurable antenna for receiving antenna selection at 2.48GHz has been designed and evaluated. Comparisons of MIMO systems employing antennas with different selection schemes are presented. The system performances are discussed in terms of channel capacity.

Keywords

MIMO communication; UHF antennas; broadband antennas; channel capacity; indoor environment; radio receivers; radio transmitters; radiowave propagation; receiving antennas; broadband MIMO measurement platform; channel capacity; frequency 2.48 GHz; indoor environment; pattern reconfigurable antenna; radio propagation channel; receivers; receiving antenna selection; terminal MIMO antenna; transmitters; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; MIMO; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas; MIMO; Pattern reconfigurable; channel capacity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6230393

Filename

6230393