Design and verification of MIMO 2×2 reference antennas

Author

Szini, I. ; Pedersen, G.F. ; Estrada, J. ; Scannavini, A. ; Foged, L.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst., Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark

fYear

2012

fDate

8-14 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The development and initial discussion of a reference MIMO 2×2 antenna concept has been presented in [1]. The reference antenna concept has been created to eliminate the uncertainties linked to the unknown antenna performance of the few LTE MIMO 2×2 reference devices or golden standards currently available for evaluating radiated data throughput measurement methodologies and test facilities. The proposed concept is based on simple antennas with a well-known Figure of Merit (FoM) and controllable performance. In this paper we present the recent developments on the antenna concept and report on the first measured performance at uniform incoming power distribution, figures and correlations between different measurement labs.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; MIMO communication; FoM; LTE MIMO two-by-two reference devices; MIMO two-by-two reference antennas; figure of merit; golden standards; power distribution; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; MIMO; Performance evaluation; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0461-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2012.6348702

Filename

6348702