Title :
Smart mobile wireless LAN card antenna
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
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;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2003. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Columbus, OH, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7846-6
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2003.1219172
