Reconfigurable antennas for MIMO ad-hoc networks

Author

Kountouriotis, John ; Piazza, Daniele ; Mookiah, Prathaban ; Amico, Michele D. ; Dandekar, Kapil R.

Author_Institution

Drexel Univ., Philadelphia

fYear

2008

fDate

22-24 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

563

Lastpage

566

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the performance of reconflgurable antennas in an MIMO ad-hoc network. The nodes employ the multiuser waterfllling (known also as iterative waterfllling) power allocation [1], [2] method and we use network sum capacity as a performance metric. We study a centralized configuration selection scheme, which can be used as an upper bound in the sum capacity using reconflgurable antennas, as well as a simple distributed configuration selection scheme, suitable for use in an ad-hoc MIMO network.

Keywords

MIMO communication; ad hoc networks; dipole antenna arrays; microstrip antenna arrays; MIMO ad-hoc networks; centralized configuration selection scheme; distributed configuration selection scheme; multiple input multiple output communications; multiuser waterfllling power allocation method; network sum capacity; reconfigurable RDPA; reconfigurable printed dipole array; Ad hoc networks; Antenna radiation patterns; Antennas and propagation; Computer networks; Dipole antennas; Interference; MIMO; Microstrip antenna arrays; Switches; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium, 2008 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1462-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1463-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2008.4463554

Filename

4463554