Phased array antenna suitable for a relay-aided WiMAX network

Author

Petropoulos, Ioannis ; Voudouris, K. ; Abd-Alhameed, R.A. ; Jones, S.M.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Technol. Educ. Inst. of Athens (TEI of Athens), Athens, Greece

fYear

2013

fDate

11-12 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

567

Lastpage

571

Abstract

In this study, a planar 4×4 phased array including modified E-shaped radiation elements is designed and fabricated to be incorporated in a Relay Station (RS) for realizing the communication with the super-ordinate Base Station. The proposed array provides 12.4% bandwidth at the 3.5GHz frequency band and gain of 21.2dB. Moreover a beamforming module is designed and simulated, aimed to be connected to the proposed array and realizing beamforming applications. This module provides 650 MHz bandwidth around 3.5GHz frequency band and is used for proper power division and controlling the amplitude/phase of the excitation currents.

Keywords

WiMax; antenna phased arrays; array signal processing; microwave antenna arrays; beam-forming applications; beamforming module; excitation currents; frequency 3.5 GHz; frequency 650 MHz; gain 21.2 dB; modified E-shaped radiation elements; phased array antenna; power division; relay station; relay-aided WiMAX network; super-ordinate base station; Antennas and propagation; Arrays; Bandwidth; Microstrip; Power dividers; Relays; WiMAX; E-shaped patch antenna; beamforming; phased array;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2013 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2013.6711964

Filename

6711964