Title :
MIMO dielectric resonator antenna for LTE femtocell access point applications
Author :
Khalily, Mohsen ; Jamaluddin, M.H. ; Rahman, Tharek A. ; Nasir, Jamal ; Kamarudin, M.R.
Author_Institution :
Wireless Commun. Centre (WCC), Univ. Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia
Abstract :
A four-port MIMO dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is studied and proposed. The antenna consisting of four rectangular dielectric resonator (RDR) elements, each one is fed by a coplanar feed line, is fabricated on FR4 substrate. A parametric study is carried out and the presented antenna has been fabricated. The presented MIMO DRA having good MIMO characteristics offers a measured bandwidth of 250 MHz between 2480 MHz and 2730MHz for |S11| <; -10dB, which can operate on LTE bands 7 (2500-2570MHz) and 38 (2570-2620MHz). In these frequency bands the measured isolation is less than -17dB. By calculating and measuring the envelop correlation coefficient, mean effective gains and the diversity gain, the MIMO performance of the presented antenna has been examined. The antenna presented is easy to feed, fabricate, and can be a good candidate for LTE femtocell access point applications.
Keywords :
Long Term Evolution; MIMO communication; antenna feeds; dielectric resonator antennas; femtocellular radio; radio access networks; FR4 substrate; LTE bands; LTE femtocell access point applications; MIMO DRA; MIMO characteristics; bandwidth 250 MHz; coplanar feed line; diversity gain; envelop correlation coefficient; four-port MIMO dielectric resonator antenna; frequency 2480 MHz to 2730 MHz; mean effective gains; Antenna measurements; Dielectric resonator antennas; Dielectrics; Diversity methods; MIMO; Ports (Computers); Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA); Long Term Evaluation (LTE); Mean Effective Gain (MEG); Multiple Input Multiple output (MIMO); envelop correlation (ECC);
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
