• DocumentCode
    2160766
  • Title

    Design of a MIMO antenna to enhance channel capacity for indoor base stations

  • Author

    Uchida, Daisuke ; Arai, Hiroyuki

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Eng., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Yokohama, Japan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    8-14 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a MIMO antenna design to enhance channel capacity in an indoor base station (BS), and the measurement performance. In our approach, dual-polarization and directional antennas are applied for BS, and design guidelines of half-power beam width (HPBW), downward tilt angle, and beam direction are determined. Then, a patch array is fabricated on the basis of this design guideline, and the measurement MIMO performance is presented.
  • Keywords
    MIMO communication; channel capacity; directive antennas; indoor radio; microstrip antenna arrays; HPBW; MIMO antenna design; beam direction; channel capacity enhancement; directional antennas; downward tilt angle; dual-polarization antennas; half-power beam width; indoor BS; indoor base stations; measurement performance; patch array; Antenna measurements; Channel capacity; Directional antennas; Directive antennas; Guidelines; MIMO; Signal to noise ratio;
  • 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.2012.6349294
  • Filename
    6349294