The effect of antenna physics on fading correlation and the capacity of multielement antenna systems

Author

Gong, J. ; Hayes, J.F. ; Soleymani, M.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que.

fYear

2005

fDate

1-4 May 2005

Firstpage

1363

Lastpage

1366

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a three dimensional model to evaluate the effects of antenna pattern and orientation on the fading correlation in multiple input-multiple output wireless systems. The channel transfer function and its correlation matrix are derived. Two kinds of antenna are deployed in our simulation, dipole and patch microstrip antennas. The simulation results show that the patch microstrip antenna array in the receiver has higher outage channel capacity than the dipole antenna array when the linear transmitting array and the linear receiving array lie broadside to one another

Keywords

MIMO systems; antenna radiation patterns; channel capacity; dipole antenna arrays; fading channels; microstrip antenna arrays; radio networks; transfer functions; channel transfer function; correlation matrix; dipole antennas array; fading correlation; higher outage channel capacity; linear receiving array; linear transmitting array; multielement antenna systems; multiple input-multiple output wireless systems; patch microstrip antenna array; Channel capacity; Dipole antennas; Fading; Linear antenna arrays; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microstrip antennas; Physics; Receiving antennas; Transfer functions; Transmission line matrix methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Saskatoon, Sask.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8885-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2005.1557230

Filename

1557230