Dipole configurations with strongly improved radiation efficiencyfor hand-held transceivers

In this paper the design criteria for antenna structures with improved radiation efficiency while operating in close vicinity to a biological scatterer are investigated. The study is performed using a simple λ/2 dipole combined with a directive or reflective element. The optimization criteria are the effective radiation efficiency, the spatial peak specific absorption rate (SAR), and the sensitivity of the input resistance to the distance from the scatterer. It is demonstrated that the primary design criterion to improve the radiation efficiency is not directivity but the reduction of the maximum incident magnetic field strength in the exposed skin area of the user's head. For the reflectively coupled dipole, all performance parameters are improved by several decibels compared to a standard, λ/2 dipole, whereas for some other directive structures, the performance is impaired. The study is conducted with the generalized multipole technique (GMT) numerical simulation method, the results of which are validated by measurement methods     

Performance analysis of Wi-Fi shaped SIW antennas

In this paper, two different Wi-Fi shaped Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) antennas are designed and fabricated. Both antennas were designed to operate at 7 GHz frequency or in centimeter-wavelength range. The essential parameters and dimensions of the proposed designs were estimated theoretically via mathematical calculations. Both the antennas were then simulated by using CST Studio suite finite element method based simulation software and have been optimized to operate within the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Wi-Max frequency bands respectively. In fabrication process, Wi-Fi shaped antennas were designed by taking dimensions of patch as 35 (L) mm × 26 (W) mm × 0.035 (h) mm on Roger RT Duroid 5880 substrate. The copper metal of thickness 8270 μm with loss tangent is 0.0009 is deposited with dielectric constant 2.20 on the substrate. Then microdrill is used to obtained vias or holes on the substrate. Experimental results related to antenna parameters highlighted in the paper further shows that fabricated SIW antennas are in good agreement with the predicted values calculated by the simulated model. Based on the experimental prototypes modeling, a thorough comparative analysis between the two different Wi-Fi shaped SIW antennas is investigated for different parameters like gain, bandwidth, reflection coefficient (S₁₁) and radiation pattern & hence highlighted in the paper. The results of double Wi-Fi shaped antenna reveal better performance than the single Wi-Fi shaped antenna.     

卫星阵馈反射面多波束天线赋形波束的性能分析

该文主要对赋形波束的性能与波束宽度和波束间隔间的关系进行了一般性的研究。首先提出4个能够描述赋形波束性能好坏的性能指标。然后给出波束赋形问题的数学模型,这个模型建立了赋形波束的性能指标与波束宽度和波束间隔间的关系。接着应用泛函分析理论推导了波束赋形问题的一般解,同时通过对这个一般解的讨论,从信号与系统的角度阐明了波束赋形的机理。最后通过一个实际的例子分析了波束赋形的两个参数波束宽度和波束间隔与性能指标之间的变化关系,并提出了选择最佳波束宽度和波束间隔的简易方法。     

Spectral analysis in DMT-based transceivers

A general analytical formula is presented for the spectral density evaluation of the discrete-time sequence obtained by IFFT in a DMT-based transceiver     

Performance analysis of concatenated space-time coding with two transmit antennas

In this paper, we show how Alamouti's simple but useful transmit diversity scheme for two antennas can be combined with a standard outer error-correcting code to achieve a stronger concatenated space-time coding scheme. By introducing a matrix formalism that allows us to interpret the transmission channel as a rotation in an Euclidean space, it can be easily shown that this scheme with two transmit (TX) and L/sub r/ receive (RX) antennas is equivalent to a simple RX antenna setup with 2L/sub r/ RX antennas. Analytical formulas for pair error probabilities will be derived for the time and/or frequency flat fading and for the ideally interleaved Rayleigh fading channel as well as for the correlated fading channel. As a practical example, we study how the performance of a Walsh-Hadamard coded multicarrier code-division multiple-access system depends on the correlation bandwidth of the channel and the number of RX and TX antennas.     

Performance of switched-beam smart antennas for cellular radiosystems

The performance and feasibility of switched-beam smart antennas for cellular radio systems is investigated. Switched-beam smart antenna systems are shown to either increase the capacity or extend the radio coverage by increasing the carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR). The trunking efficiency degradation caused by narrow-beam sectoring can be recovered or even improved by using a variety of trunkpool techniques. One drawback of switched-beam smart antennas is that the improvement in reverse-channel performance is not uniform over the entire cell area, and this presents a limiting factor on the achievable gains, practical considerations such as power control and the limited deployment of smart antenna cells are also addressed     

UWB PIFA for simplified transceivers

A planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) with an input match designed to offer the capability of a front-end bandpass filter in mobile communication transceivers is presented. The proposed antenna is low cost, easily fabricated, and operates in the unlicensed lower band (3.168- 4.752 GHz) of the ultra-wideband (UWB) communication standard with a 3.57:1 VSWR. It is demonstrated that the antenna possesses a radiation pattern with good front-to-back ratio and shows acceptable impedance matching in proximity to large ground planes making it suitable for applications such as in-vehicle communications.     

Performance of antennas in random fields

The behavior of some typical antennas or antenna systems when subjected to random fields is investigated with the purpose of determining their performance. Some relevant parameters, which are directly obtainable from a correlation matrix, are considered. Numerical results, regarding the dependence of the matrix elements and some of the antenna parameters on the illumination of circular apertures, are reported for fluctuating incident fields of variable randomness.     

Performance of space-time codes for a large number of antennas

We study the asymptotic behavior of space-time codes when the number of transmit and receive antennas grows to infinity. Specifically, we determine the behavior of pairwise error probabilities with maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding and with three types of receiver interfaces: the ML interface, the linear zero-forcing (ZF) interface, and the linear minimum-mean-square-error (MMSE) interface. Two situations are studied: when the number of receiving antennas grows to infinity while the number of transmitting antennas is finite, and when both numbers grow to infinity but their ratio remains constant. We show that with ML or linear interfaces the asymptotic performance of space-time codes is determined by the Euclidean distances between codewords. Moreover, with the two linear interfaces examined here the number r of receive antennas must be much larger than the number t of transmit antennas to avoid a sizeable loss of performance; on the other hand, when r ≫ t, the performance of these linear interfaces comes close to that of ML. The dependence of error probabilities on Euclidean distance is valid for intermediate signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) even when the number of antennas is small. Simulations validate our theoretical findings, and show how asymptotic results may be substantially valid even in a nonasymptotic regime: thus, even for few antennas, off-the-shelf codes may outperform space-time codes designed ad hoc     

Time-domain optical response of an electrooptic modulator usingFDTD

A time-domain analysis of an LiNbO₃ electrooptic modulator using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique is performed. This allows for the calculation of optical modulation and the time-domain optical response of an electrooptic modulator. The electromagnetic fields computed by FDTD are coupled to standard electrooptic relations that characterize electrooptic interactions inside the embedded Ti diffused LiNbO₃ optical waveguides. The electric field-dependent change in the index of refraction inside these optical waveguides and resulting minute phase shifts imparted to optical signals propagating along the device are determined in time, allowing for the simulation of optical intensity modulation. This novel approach to LiNbO₃ electrooptic modulators using a coupled FDTD technique allows for previously unattainable investigations into device operating bandwidth and data transmission speed     

Performance evaluation study of signal design and equalization options for high-bit-rate digital subscriber line transceivers

This paper analyses different equalization, coding and signal constellation alternatives for the proposed high-bit-rate (800 kb/s) digital subscriber loop transmission interface. The simulation results presented in the paper demonstrate that bit rates above 1000 kb/s at acceptably low bit-error rates (≤ 10^?7) are feasible, if baseband transceivers with appropriate equalization and simple trellis coding are used. It is also shown that baseband transmission and Tomlinson precoding provide a significant performance advantage over bandpass transmission and decision-feedback equalization, respectively.     

Performance of reduced size substrate lens antennas for Millimeter-wave communications

This paper presents the theoretical performance (input impedance, -10 dB return-loss bandwidth, radiation patterns and surface efficiencies) of reduced size substrate lenses fed by aperture-coupled microstrip patch antennas. The diameter of the extended hemispherical homogeneous dielectric (/spl epsiv//sub r,lens/) lenses varies between one and five wavelengths in free-space, in order to obtain radiating structures whose directivity is comprised between 10 and 25 dB. A lot of configurations of lenses are investigated using the finite-difference time-domain methods technique and compared in the 47-50 GHz band as a function of their diameter, extension length and dielectric constant. In particular, the analysis of internal reflections-in time and frequency domains-shows that the latter have potentially a strong influence on the input impedance of small lens antennas, even for low values of /spl epsiv//sub r,lens/(2.2), whereas the usual limit (beyond which anti-reflection coatings are required) is /spl epsiv//sub r,lens/=4. We also demonstrate that the diffraction limit of reduced size lenses is reached for extension lengths varying between 50% and 175% of the extension of synthesized ellipses, depending on the lens material and diameter. Finally, we show that superdirective structures with surface efficiencies reaching 250% can be obtained with small lens diameters, justifying the interest in reduced size lens antennas.     

Exact sampling approach for reflector antennas analysis

A new method for computing the far field of a possibly shaped or deformed reflector antenna based on a sampling representation of the radiation integral is presented. Using a projection technique the required samples can be efficiently computed using a two-dimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT), whereas the radiated field is reconstructed via standard sampling expansion. Numerical examples and computation time analysis are reported showing the effectiveness of the approach particularly for deformed reflectors and/or plane-cut field evaluation.     

Optimum DMT-based transceivers for multiuser communications

The paper considers discrete multitone (DMT) modulation for multiuser communications when multiple users are supported by the same system, a zero-padding redundancy is employed at the transmitter output, and linear redundancy removal is used at the channel output. These users may have differing quality of service (QoS) requirements, as quantified by bit rate and symbol-error rate specifications, and are each assigned an equal number of subchannels. Our goal is to minimize the transmitted power, given the QoS specifications and subject to the knowledge of the channel and the second-order statistics of the colored interference at the receiver input. In particular, we find an optimum bit-loading scheme that distributes the bit rate transmitted across the various subchannels belonging to each user, and, subject to this bit allocation, we determine the precise subchannels assigned to each user, the optimum transceiver characterized by the input/output block transforms, and the redundancy removal operation. A major conclusion is that even though the optimum bit-rate allocation differs from the single-user case, the optimum transceiver does not. Further, it is determined entirely by the channel and interference conditions, and is unaffected by the QoS requirements.     

ISI-free FIR filterbank transceivers for frequency-selectivechannels

Discrete multitone modulation transceivers (DMTs) have been shown to be very useful for data transmission over frequency-selective channels. The DMT scheme is realized by a transceiver that divides the channel into subbands. The efficiency of the scheme depends on the frequency selectivity of the transmitting and receiving filters. The receiving filters with good stopband attenuation are also desired for combating narrowband noise. The filterbank transceiver or discrete wavelet multitone (DWMT) system has been proposed as an implementation of the DMT transceiver that has better frequency band separation, but usually, intersymbol interference (ISI) cannot be completely cancelled in these filterbank transceivers, and additional equalization is required. We show how to use over interpolated filterbanks to design ISI-free FIR transceivers. A finite impulse response (FIR) transceiver with good frequency selectivity can be designed, as demonstrated by the design examples     

Low-complexity FFT structures for OFDM transceivers

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing is a multiple-access technique with modulation and demodulation implemented by an inverse discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and a DFT, respectively. In a downlink (uplink) environment, an individual receiver (transmitter) may only use a small number of subchannels at any given time, in which case it does not make sense to require full DFT demodulation (inverse DFT modulation). Several existing low-complexity techniques for computing a partial DFT or inverse DFT with power-of-two size are examined. Low-complexity fast Fourier transform structures for full, few input, and few output nonpower-of-two transforms are derived.     

Numerical analysis technique for diode-loaded dipole antennas

A circuit model for a double-loaded dipole electric field measurement probe that is valid for frequencies below 10 GHz is developed. A nonnegligible dipole radius and the nonlinear characteristics of the diode are taken into consideration. The dipole lumped-circuit elements and diode capacitances are determined by theoretical means, while the diode V-I characteristics and resistance are determined by a combined theoretical and empirical approach. Newton's iteration method is used to numerically solve the resulting nonlinear differential equation. Experimental measurements on a probe designed for operation between 1 and 1000 MHz are reported and compared with the theoretical results     

FDTD analysis of E-sectoral horn antennas for broad-bandapplications

The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is applied to study the performance of E-plane sectoral horn antennas designed for broad-band applications. These antennas (proposed for 6-18 GHz phased arrays) have a large bandwidth, and they are easily array integrated. These antennas have a highly complicated geometry that is modeled using a polygonal approximation in the curved boundaries. Perfect matched layers (PMLs) combined with first-order absorbing boundaries are employed to simulate the free-space environment in the FDTD mesh     

Performance degradation of dielectric radome covered antennas

Performance is evaluated by a method based on the reciprocity theorem. The asymptotic expression for the radome Green's function that allows the characterization of the radome by itself, independently of any specific antenna, is identified. The concept of the modified aperture distribution, which radiating in free space produces the same pattern as the radome-covered antenna, is introduced. It can be used for the design of the radome stratification and for the optimization of the antenna location. On the basis of the formulation of a computer code has been developed that analyzes the degradation induced by radomes with surfaces and dielectric stratifications that can be defined numerically. Theoretical predictions and experimental results are compared     

Optimum finite-length equalization for multicarrier transceivers

A new criterion for partially-equalizing severe ISI channels to reduce the cyclic prefix overhead of the discrete multitone (DMT) transceiver, assuming a fixed transmission bandwidth, is introduced. The equalized DMT is shown to recover a significant portion of the performance loss incurred because of the use of a moderate-size FFT in the DMT to reduce latency and implementation cost. In particular, equalizers designed using our new criterion result in a higher DMT performance margin than traditional mean-square-error DMT equalizers. Finally, additional promising methods that further enhance the performance of the equalized DMT are investigated