Miniaturized MIMO-PIFA with Pattern and Polarization Diversity

Author

Ghosh, Soham ; Tran, Thanh-Ngon ; Le-Ngoc, Tho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

6-9 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper investigates various designs of 4-element miniaturized Planar Inverted-F Antennas (PIFA) with pattern and polarization diversity at 2.45 GHz. The antennas are only 13mm x 7mm in area and built on a small ground plane size of 105 mm x 55 mm. Diversity performance criteria namely the Envelope Correlation Coefficient (ECC) and Mean Effective Gain (MEG) are computed for different fading channel scenarios using the simulated far-field radiation patterns. Then the Effective Diversity Gain (EDG) of all the configurations under the Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC) scheme are generated. The results show that the antenna systems can give a maximum EDG of 16.31 dB as compared to the theoretical limit of 19.12 dB.

Keywords

MIMO communication; UHF antennas; antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; diversity reception; electromagnetic wave polarisation; fading channels; planar inverted-F antennas; 4-element miniaturized PIFA; 4-element miniaturized planar inverted-f antenna; ECC; EDG; MEG; MIMO-PIFA; MRC scheme; effective diversity gain; envelope correlation coefficient; fading channel scenario; far-field radiation pattern simulation; frequency 2.4 GHz; gain 16.31 dB; gain 19.12 dB; maximal ratio combining scheme; mean effective gain; pattern diversity; polarization diversity; Antenna radiation patterns; Correlation; Diversity reception; Fading; MIMO; Signal to noise ratio;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2012 IEEE 75th

Conference_Location

Yokohama

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0989-9

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2012.6240235

Filename

6240235