Title :
Study of the optimum number of radiating elements for different portable devices operating in a MIMO system
Author :
Gago, O. ; González, L. ; Eickhoff, R.
Author_Institution :
TTI Telecommun. & Inf. Technol., Germany
Abstract :
In this paper it is presented a study of the optimum number of radiating elements in a MIMO array for different portable devices working in the 5.6 GHz band. The array configurations are formed using a Vivaldi antenna as radiating element. This study tries to clarify how many elements are possible to allocate in the different form factors to achieve the best possible effective diversity gain (EDG). Laptop, PDA and PCMCIA are the form factors that are used in this study.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; antenna radiation patterns; diversity reception; MIMO array; MIMO system; Vivaldi antenna; effective diversity gain; radiating elements; Antenna arrays; Antenna feeds; Diversity methods; MIMO; Microstrip antennas; Personal digital assistants; Portable computers; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Vivaldi antennas; Effective diversity gain; MIMO system; Vivaldi radiating element; portable device;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Conference, 2009. EW 2009. European
Conference_Location :
Aalborg
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5935-3
DOI :
10.1109/EW.2009.5357996
