Performance of a three-branch orthogonal polarization diversity scheme

Author

Lukama, L.C. ; Konstantinou, K. ; Edwards, D.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Sci., Oxford Univ., UK

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2033

Abstract

The performance of a three-branch orthogonal polarization scheme consisting of one vertically polarized and two orthogonal horizontally polarized antennas at the receiver with a horizontally and vertically polarized transmitter is investigated. The paper shows that such a scheme provides diversity improvement of about 2dB more than the dual-branch system. Also the signals received at the three branches are highly uncorrelated. This scheme can make significant improvements in the link budget of a mobile network

Keywords

antenna arrays; diversity reception; electromagnetic wave polarisation; mobile antennas; mobile radio; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; 2 dB; diversity improvement; horizontally polarized transmitter; link budget; mobile network; orthogonal horizontally polarized antennas; receiver; three-branch orthogonal polarization diversity scheme; vertically polarized antennas; vertically polarized transmitter; Antenna measurements; Base stations; Diversity methods; Fading; Polarization; Radio transmitters; Receiving antennas; Switches; Transmitting antennas; Volume measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.957101

Filename

957101