Investigation of wideband printed dipole arrays with parasitic elements for wireless mesh network (WMN) applications

Author

Chang, Wenmo ; Chen, Wenhua ; Feng, Zhenghe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

16-20 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A novel wideband printed dipole antenna suitable for wireless mesh network (WMN) application is proposed in this paper, with VSWR<1.6´s bandwidth greater than 31% at 5.5GHz, covering the WLAN upper band. When arranging the dipoles for an E-plane array, two parasitic elements are utilized on both sides of the array to achieve a 25-degree beamwidth in the E-plane so that the array could deal with rugged road surfaces, and to maintain high gain as well. Both simulation and experimental results are presented, and the relationship between parasitic elements and the array performance is also investigated.

Keywords

broadband antennas; dipole antenna arrays; microstrip antenna arrays; microwave antenna arrays; radio networks; wireless LAN; E-plane array; VSWR; WLAN upper band; frequency 5.5 GHz; parasitic elements; wideband printed dipole arrays; wireless mesh network; Antenna arrays; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Dipole antennas; Frequency; Impedance matching; Prototypes; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless mesh networks; Printed dipole; parasitic array; parasitic elements; wideband balun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2008. APMC 2008. Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2641-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2642-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2008.4957950

Filename

4957950