A printed circuit switched array antenna for indoor communications

Author

Kalis, Antonis ; Antonakopoulos, Theodore ; Maklos, V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Technol., Patras Univ., Greece

Volume

46

Issue

3

fYear

2000

fDate

8/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

531

Lastpage

538

Abstract

This paper presents a new printed switched array antenna suitable for indoor mobile communications. The antenna uses printed active elements and produces either omnidirectional or many directional overlapping patterns. The omni-directionality, is needed in order to implement the collision avoidance algorithms in next generation wireless systems, while directional patterns are needed to effectively confront the problems induced by the noisy indoor channel to the highly demanding wireless applications. An electromagnetic simulation tool was used to evaluate the antenna design

Keywords

active antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; directive antennas; indoor radio; land mobile radio; microstrip antenna arrays; slot antenna arrays; collision avoidance algorithms; directional overlapping patterns; electromagnetic simulation tool; indoor communications; indoor mobile communication; next generation wireless systems; noisy indoor channel; omni-directionality; omnidirectional overlapping patterns; printed active elements; printed circuit switched array antenna; printed switched array antenna; Antenna arrays; Collision avoidance; Communication switching; Directive antennas; Indoor communication; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Noise generators; Printed circuits; Switching circuits;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.883406

Filename

883406