Smart mobile wireless LAN card antenna

Author

Karmakar, N.C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

30

Abstract

The design and development of a smart antenna for a wireless local area network (WLAN) card for portable and mobile terminals are proposed. The antenna uses an eight PIFA element cylindrical array wrapped around a 2 cm high and 5 cm diameter conducting cylinder placed on a LAN card. The antenna beam is switched by a 1-to-8 way 2-element radial switch, which can generate eight individual equispaced beams suitable for portable and mobile applications.

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; beam steering; directive antennas; microwave antenna arrays; mobile antennas; wireless LAN; 2 cm; 2.5 cm; 5.2 GHz; 5.3 GHz; PIFA element cylindrical array; WLAN card; adaptive directional antennas; antenna beam switching; conducting cylinder; equispaced beams; mobile terminals; portable terminals; smart mobile wireless LAN card antenna; switched beam array; wireless local area network; Antenna arrays; Application software; Communication switching; Directional antennas; Local area networks; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Radio frequency; Switches; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2003. IEEE

Conference_Location

Columbus, OH, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7846-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2003.1219172

Filename

1219172