Antenna effects in impulse radio communication systems

Author

Zhang, Yongwei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Manchester Univ., UK

fYear

2005

fDate

5-6 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

53

Lastpage

56

Abstract

A complete simulation of an ultra-wide band communication system in an indoor environment has been undertaken in the time domain. This utilizes time domain 3-D ray tracing coupled with antenna modeling to provide an overall channel simulation. The time-domain radiating characteristics of different linear antennas in transmission and reception in a typical indoor environment are used as representative of typical antennas. The UWB channel was studied with and without considering antenna effect and the system performance are evaluated accordingly. Broadly, link performance is affected by two different factors: radiation pattern from the antenna and impedance mismatch effects. Both are included in the simulation, results are based on 10 meters distance between the transmitter and receiver and 100 Mbps data transmission rate assumed in a complex indoor environment.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; data communication; impedance matching; indoor radio; linear antennas; ray tracing; ultra wideband antennas; wireless channels; 100 Mbit/s; 3-D ray tracing; UWB channel simulation; antenna modeling; data transmission rate; impedance mismatch effect; impulse radio system; linear antenna; radiation pattern; receiving antenna; time domain analysis; transmitting antenna; ultrawide band communication; Antenna radiation patterns; Couplings; Impedance; Indoor environments; Radio communication; Radio transmitters; Ray tracing; System performance; Time domain analysis; Ultra wideband antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium, 2005

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9500-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HFPSC.2005.1566361

Filename

1566361