Impact of a new wideband slot array on MIMO indoor system performance

Author

Costa, Jorge R. ; Lima, Eduardo B. ; Medeiros, Carla R. ; Fernandes, Carlos A.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Telecomun., Lisbon Univ. Inst., Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2011

fDate

3-8 July 2011

Firstpage

2208

Lastpage

2211

Abstract

Indoor channel measurements were carried out to evaluate the impact on MIMO system performance of a new wideband compact slot antenna array intended for WLAN Access Points (AP). The antenna explores both spatial and polarization diversity. The study involves a detailed MIMO performance comparison against a common array of patches. The new antenna shows a clear improvement in terms of bit error rate for different number of array elements and different polarization diversity arrangements.

Keywords

MIMO communication; broadband antennas; diversity reception; indoor communication; microstrip antenna arrays; slot antenna arrays; wireless LAN; wireless channels; MIMO indoor system performance; WLAN access points; array elements; bit error rate; indoor channel measurements; polarization diversity; spatial diversity; wideband compact slot antenna array; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Arrays; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; MIMO; Wireless communication; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) array; indoor system performance measurements; printed wideband tapered slot antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Spokane, WA

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9562-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2011.5996953

Filename

5996953