Design and implementation of reconfigurable quad-band microstrip antenna for MIMO wireless communication applications

Author

Ali, Mohamed Mamdouh M. ; Azmy, Andrew M. ; Haraz, Osama M.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Assiut Univ., Assiut, Egypt

fYear

2014

fDate

28-30 April 2014

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

34

Abstract

A quad band planar microstrip-line-fed printed circuit board (PCB) antenna for different applications is introduced in this paper. The proposed antenna can be used in mobile applications such as GSM 900 and DCS-1800. It can be also used for Bluetooth and wireless local area network (WLAN) applications at 2.4 GHz. The antenna has good characteristics at 2.3 GHz and 3.5 GHz which enable it to be used for mobile WiMAX 2.3-2.4 GHz applications and Wi-Fi 2.4-2.45 GHz applications. The antenna is built on Taconic substrate with a finite ground plane on the other side of the substrate. Simulation as well as measured results shows that the antenna has good performance in all frequency bands of operation. A reconfigurable antenna is designed and simulated using PIN switches for recent communication applications such as Cognitive radio (CR). Also, a two-element antenna system is designed, simulated and measured for multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) applications.

Keywords

Bluetooth; MIMO communication; WiMax; antenna feeds; cognitive radio; microstrip antenna arrays; microstrip lines; microwave switches; planar antenna arrays; printed circuits; wireless LAN; Bluetooth; CR; DCS-1800; GSM 900; MIMO wireless communication application; PCB; PIN switch; Taconic substrate; WLAN; cognitive radio; finite ground plane; frequency 2.3 GHz to 2.4 GHz; frequency 2.4 GHz to 2.45 GHz; frequency 3.5 GHz; mobile WiMAX; multiple-input-multiple-output application; quad band planar microstrip-line-fed printed circuit board antenna; radiotelemetry; reconfigurable quad-band microstrip antenna; two-element antenna system; wireless local area network; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Microstrip antennas; Mobile antennas; Resonant frequency; Wireless LAN; Bluetooth; Digital Cellular System (DCS); Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM); WiFi; Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX); multiband antenna; multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO); planar antenna; printed circuit board (PCB); quad-band antenna; reconfigurable antennas; wireless local area network (WLAN);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Science Conference (NRSC), 2014 31st National

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3820-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRSC.2014.6835057

Filename

6835057