Diversity mechanisms of MIMO antennas with six degrees-of-freedom
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In this paper, we investigate the roles of different diversity mechanisms in two recently proposed six-port MIMO antennas using the effective degree-of-freedom concept. In particular, we confirm that angle and polarization diversities are indeed the dominant diversity mechanisms for the compact antenna that is designed to replicate the characteristics of the ideal co-located six-port antenna. On the other hand, a physically larger reference antenna is found to offer substantial space diversity, in addition to angle and polarization diversities, allowing it to outperform the compact antenna in propagation scenarios with narrow angular spreads.
In this paper, we investigate the roles of different diversity mechanisms in two recently proposed six-port MIMO antennas using the effective degree-of-freedom concept. In particular, we confirm that angle and polarization diversities are indeed the dominant diversity mechanisms for the compact antenna that is designed to replicate the characteristics of the ideal co-located six-port antenna. On the other hand, a physically larger reference antenna is found to offer substantial space diversity, in addition to angle and polarization diversities, allowing it to outperform the compact antenna in propagation scenarios with narrow angular spreads.
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Publishing year
2012
Language
English
Document type
Conference paper
Topic
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Conference name
3rd COST IC1004 Management Committee Meeting
Conference date
2012-02-08 - 2012-02-10
Conference place
Barcelona, Spain
Status
Published
Research group
- Communication Systems
- Electromagnetic theory
- Radio Systems