Degree-of-freedom evaluation of six-port antenna arrays in a rich scattering environment

Summary, in English

It has been proposed that six co-located antennas, namely three electric and three magnetic dipoles, can offer up to a six-fold capacity increase in wireless channels, relative to that of single antennas. In other words, six degrees of freedom (DOFs) can be supported by co-located six-port transmit and receive antenna arrays. However, due to the complexity in designing and measuring such a six-port antenna, to our knowledge, no experimental verification has yet been successfully performed. In this paper, the six DOFs hypothesis is experimentally verified at the 300 MHz band. The experiment involved the design and fabrication of two six-port arrays, and MIMO channel measurements in a rich scattering environment with these arrays.

• Author: Ruiyuan Tian; Buon Kiong Lau
• Department/s: Department of Electrical and Information Technology; ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication
• Publishing year: 2011
• Language: English
• Pages: 51-54
• Publication/Series: IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, 2011
• Volume: 1
• Full text: - 422 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APS.2011.5996380
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Topic: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
• Conference name: IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, 2011
• Conference date: 2011-07-03 - 2011-07-08
• Conference place: Spokane, WA, United States
• Status: Published
• Project: Radiosystem: Fundamental Limits of Compact MIMO Systems (VR, BKL); Radiosystem: MIMO technology in compact multiband antenna systems (Vinnova/SonyEricsson, BKL)
• Research group: Electromagnetic theory; Radio Systems
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 978-1-4244-9563-4; ISBN: 978-1-4244-9562-7