A Tri-Port MIMO Antenna Designed for Micro/Pico Cell Applications with Self-Decoupled Structure

A tri-port MIMO antenna designed for Micro/Pico-Cell application is proposed.It is based on printed elements with X-shaped arms,which are oriented to 0°,120° and240° in the azimuth plane.The arms of these elements are connected,with which a selfdecoupled structure is formed.The mutual coupling between adjacent elements is below-15 dB.Meanwhile,it size is compact and bidirectional radiation patterns with around 4dBi Gain and 92° 3dB beam width is achieved,which can provide good pattern diversity and full azimuth coverage in real applications.

Capacity and Spatial Correlation Measurements of Compact MIMO Antennas

The dual-port compact multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)dipole antennas with close spacing d of 0.5λand 0.3λare designed,and some electromagnetic band gap(EBG)structures are inserted between them to reduce mutual coupling.Those MIMO antennas with d=0.5λand 0.3λ,and with different mutual couplings are fabricated and measured,the channel capacity and correlation coefficient(CC)are analyzed and compared in a rich multipath reverberation chamber(RC),an office and a conference room.Results show that if d is reduced from 0.5λto 0.3λ,in the RCs,channel capacities of all the antennas are very close to that of the i.i.d.Rayleigh channel,although the average CCs are increased from 0.168 in the nonlossy RC to 0.269 in the lossy RC.In the office and conference rooms,compared with the RC,the average capacities of those antennas get a slight reduction,however,in most cases,the capacity of d=0.5λis larger than that of d=0.3λ,and the antennas with EBG have a larger capacity compared with the antennas without EBG,with a corresponding reduction of CC.A non-line-of-sight(NLOS)scenario of through-the-wall is also investigated.

4-Port Octagonal Shaped MIMO Antenna with Low Mutual Coupling for UWB Applications

A4-port multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)antenna exhibiting lowmutual coupling andUWBperformance is developed.The octagonal-shaped four-antenna elements are connected with a 50microstrip feed line that is arranged rotationally to achieve the orthogonal polarization for improving the MIMO system performance.The antenna has a wideband impedance bandwidth of 7.5GHz with S11<−10 dB from(103.44%)3.5–11GHz and inter-element isolation higher than 20 dB.Antenna validation is carried out by verifying the simulated and measured results after fabricating the antenna.The results in the form of omnidirectional radiation patterns,peak gain(≥4 dBi),and Envelope Correlation Coefficient(ECC)(≤0.01)are extracted to validate the suggested antenna performance.Aswell,time-domain analysis was investigated to demonstrate the operation of the suggested antenna in wideband applications.Finally,the simulated and experimental outcomes have almost similar tendenciesmaking the antenna suitable for its use in UWBMIMOapplications.

A Compact Self-Isolated MIMO Antenna System for 5G Mobile Terminals

A compact self-isolated Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) antennaarray is presented for 5G mobile phone devices. The proposed antenna systemis operating at the 3.5 GHz band (3400–3600 MHz) and consists of eight antennaelements placed along two side edges of a mobile device, which meets the currenttrend requirements of full-screen smartphone devices. Each antenna element isdivided into two parts, a front part and back part. The front part consists of anI-shaped feeding line and a modified Hilbert fractal monopole antenna, whereasthe back part is an L-shaped element shorted to the system ground by a0.5 mm short stub. A desirable compactness can be obtained by utilizing the Hilbert space-filling property where the antenna element’s overall planar size printedon the side-edge frame is just (9.57 mm × 5.99 mm). The proposed MIMO antenna system has been simulated, analyzed, fabricated and tested. Based on the selfisolated property, good isolation (better than 15 dB) is attained without employingadditional decoupling elements and/or isolation techniques, which increases system complexity and reduces the antenna efficiency. The scattering parameters,antenna efficiencies, antenna gains, and antenna radiation characteristics areinvestigated to assess the proposed antenna performance. For evaluating the proposed antenna array system performance, the Envelope Correlation Coefficients(ECCs), Mean Effective Gains (MEGs) and channel capacity are calculated.Desirable antenna and MIMO performances are evaluated to confirm the suitability of the proposed MIMO antenna system for 5G mobile terminals.

Design of Six Element MIMO Antenna with Enhanced Gain for 28/38 GHz mm-Wave 5G Wireless Application

The fifth-generation(5G)wireless technology is the most recent standardization in communication services of interest across the globe.The concept of Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output antenna(MIMO)systems has recently been incorporated to operate at higher frequencies without limitations.This paper addresses,design of a high-gain MIMO antenna that offers a bandwidth of 400 MHz and 2.58 GHz by resonating at 28 and 38 GHz,respectively for 5G millimeter(mm)-wave applications.The proposed design is developed on a RT Duroid 5880 substrate with a single elemental dimension of 9.53×7.85×0.8 mm^(3).The patch antenna is fully grounded and is fed with a 50-ohm stepped impedance microstrip line.It also has an I-shaped slot and two electromagnetically coupled parasitic slotted components.This design is initially constructed as a single-element structure and proceeded to a six-element MIMO antenna configuration with overall dimensions of 50×35×0.8 mm^(3).The simulated prototype is fabricated and measured for analyzing its performance characteristics,along with MIMO antenna diversity performance factors making the proposed antenna suitable for 5G mm-wave and 5G-operated handheld devices.

Study of Radio over Fiber Transmission with a Single Line in Ring Topology for Deployment of MIMO Antenna Access Points in a Cell-less Network

The massive growth of wireless traffic goes hand in hand with the deployment of advanced radio interfaces as well as network densification. This growth has a direct impact on the radio access architecture, which today is moving from centralized to distributed deployments through the use of a large number of access points (APs). This paper verifies the feasibility of deploying multiple APs in series on a single line in a ring topology in a cell-less network. On the one hand, this technique will further improve the communication capacity and flexibility of a Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) based mobile communication system and will reduce its construction cost. And on the other hand, this deployment topology is a solution to achieve a massive cell-free Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) architecture and a cost-effective fronthaul solution. First, a passive optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) is used to extract and add downlink and uplink signals from the remote access points of one kilometer. Then, a deployment model is developed with version 17 Optisystem software. The results obtained showed that the quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) does not adapt to this multi-carrier transmission to deploy several AP in series on a single line. Thus, the performance degradation increases when the number of APs integrated on the line increases.

MIMO Antenna for UWB Communications

Design of ultra-wideband antennas is challenging in the stringent requirements that are often conflicting to achieve a wide impedance bandwidth while maintaining high radiation efficiency, uniform gain and compact size. A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna system can enhance the overall antenna performance but at having to overcome new challenges such as reducing the mutual coupling and the correlation between the elements. A printed circular disc compact planar antenna is selected in this work due to its UWB performance and compact size for the MIMO antenna system. A parametric analysis is carried out to achieve an optimal design. The system developed consists of two elements with an overall size of 59 × 27 mm. The designed antenna system operates over the whole of the UWB bandwidth from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz with radiation efficiency up to 85% and reflection coefficients less that ?10 dB. The envelope correlation is less than ?60 dB throughout the UWB band while the diversity gain approaches 10 throughout the entire UWB bandwidth and Total Active Reflection Coefficient (TARC) between the antenna elements is less ?11 dB. Thus the proposed MIMO antenna outperforms similar antenna systems reported in the literature.

A Compact UWB MIMO Antenna for Portable Applications

A novel compact multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna for portable ul-trawideband (UWB) applications is presented. This antenna consists of two modified planar-monopole antenna elements with coplanar waveguides-fed printed on one side of the substrate. To enhance isolation and increase impedance bandwidth, a tree like stubs is placed on the ground plane at the 45&deg;axis. The measured results show that the MIMO antenna operates from 2.3 GHz to 13 GHz, covering WLAN, WiMAX, and UWB. The low mutual coupling and low envelope correlation coefficient of less than 0.2 across the whole frequency band proved that this antenna was suitable for MIMO/diversity systems. Also, good performance of radiation patterns and the antenna’s compact size make it a good candidate for portable devices.

Dual Band MIMO Antenna Composed of Two Low Profile Unbalanced Fed Inverted L Antennas for Wireless Communications

A low profile dual-band multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system is proposed. The proposed MIMO antenna consists of two low profile unbalanced fed inverted L antennas with parasitic elements to resonate at 2.45 GHz and 5 GHz. The structure is uncomplicated by locating two ultra low profile inverted L antennas on the finite conducting plane. The proposed MIMO antenna is numerically and experimentally analyzed. When the size of conducting plane is 55 mm by 55 mm and the height of antenna is 9 mm, the directive gain of 4.11 dBi and the S11 bandwidth of 5.71% are achieved for lower frequency of 2.45 GHz. At the upper frequency of 5 GHz, the directive gain of 8.22 dBi and the S11 bandwidth of 6% are obtained. The proposed antenna has good diversity gain, shown by the correlation coefficient becomes less than 0.005 at the frequency of 2.45 GHz and 5 GHz band when the distance between inverted L elements is 41 mm. A good agreement between calculated and measured results is obtained. The results show that the weak mutual coupling of the proposed antenna and this feature enables it to cover the required bandwidths for WLAN operation at the 2.4 GHz band and 5 GHz band.

Analysis of MIMO antenna array based on 3D Von Mises Fisher distribution

A three-dimensional （3D） Von Mises Fisher （VMF） distribution model was derived in multiple-input and multiple-output （MIMO） antenna communication environment. The azimuth of arrival and elevation of arrival are distributed for VMF distribution instead of the uniform or other traditional distributions. In particular the MIMO uniform Y-shaped array （UYA） and the uniform circular array （UCA） antenna topology are considered at mobile station and base station. The developed spatial fading correlation of the VMF model is determined by parameters of the concentration parameter, antenna spacing, mean azimuth of arrival, mean elevation of arrival. Using the channel model, the effects of the concentration parameter and the mean elevation angle on the capacity of MIMO antenna systems was analyzed. It is shown that the mean elevation of arrival must be taken into account in 3D MIMO communication environment.

可用于WLAN的双频MIMO天线设计

设计了一款可用于WLAN的双频MIMO天线。天线的正面为L型单极子,背面为金属接地板。通过在接地板上加载耦合枝节使天线具有双频特性。同时,为了天线的小型化,对耦合枝节进行了弯折处理,减小天线尺寸。在两个天线单元之间加载T型寄生枝节和刻蚀矩形缝隙来提高天线的隔离度。使用电磁仿真软件和矢量网络分析仪对天线进行仿真和实测,结果表明:天线的工作频段为2.4~2.55 GHz和5.1~6.3 GHz,覆盖了WLAN的频段,同时在低频段内隔离度高于19 dB,高频段内隔离度高于25 dB。此外,天线的包络相关系数小于0.01且具有全向辐射特性。天线整体性能较好,可以满足WLAN的需求。

基于低秩块Hankel矩阵正则化的阵元故障MIMO雷达DOA估计

多输入多输出(Multiple-Input Multiple-Output,MIMO)雷达在阵元故障时虚拟阵列输出数据矩阵会出现大量的整行数据丢失,由于阵列接收数据矩阵的不完整而导致对波达方向(Direction of Arrival,DOA)的估计性能恶化。大多数低秩矩阵填充算法要求缺失数据随机分布于不完整的矩阵中,无法适用于整行缺失数据的恢复问题。为此,提出了一种基于低秩块Hankel矩阵正则化的阵元故障MIMO雷达DOA估计方法。首先,通过奇异值分解(Singular Value Decomposition,SVD)降低虚拟阵列输出矩阵的维度,以减少计算复杂度。然后,对降维数据矩阵建立基于块Hankel矩阵正则化的低秩矩阵填充模型,在该模型中将MIMO雷达降维数据矩阵排列成块Hankel矩阵并施加Schatten-p范数作为正则项。最后,结合交替方向乘子法(Alternate Direction Multiplier Method,ADMM)求解该模型,获得完整的MIMO雷达降维数据矩阵。仿真结果表明,所提方法能够有效恢复降维数据矩阵中的整行数据缺失,具有较高的DOA估计精度和实时性,在阵元故障率低于50.0%时DOA估计精度优于现有方法。

Antenna Selection and Power Allocation Design for 5G Massive MIMO Uplink Networks

Massive MIMO is one of the key technologies in future 5G communications which can satisfy the requirement of high speed and large capacity. This paper considers antenna selection and power allocation design to promote energy conservation then provide good quality of service(QoS) for the whole massive MIMO uplink network. Unlike previous related works, hardware impairment, transmission efficiency, and energy consumption at the circuit and antennas are involved in massive MIMO networks. In order to ensure the QoS, we consider the minimum rate constraint for each user and the system, which increases the complexity of power allocation problem for maximizing energy and spectral efficiency in massive MIMO system. To this end, a quantum-inspired social emotional optimization(QSEO) algorithm is proposed to obtain the optimal power control strategy in massive MIMO uplink networks. Simulation results assess the great advantages of QSEO which previous strategies do not have.

Joint User Scheduling and Antenna Selection in Distributed Massive MIMO Systems with Limited Backhaul Capacity

Massive MIMO systems offer a high spatial resolution that can drastically increase the spectral and/or energy efficiency by employing a large number of antennas at the base station(BS).In a distributed massive MIMO system,the capacity of fiber backhaul that links base station and remote radio heads is usually limited,which becomes a bottleneck for realizing the potential performance gain of both downlink and uplink.To solve this problem,we propose a joint antenna selection and user scheduling which is able to achieve a large portion of the potential gain provided by the massive MIMO array with only limited backhaul capacity.Three sub-optimal iterative algorithms with the objective of sumrate maximization are proposed for the joint optimization of antenna selection and user scheduling,either based on greedy fashion or Frobenius-norm criteria.Convergence and complexity analysis are presented for the algorithms.The provided Monte Carlo simulations show that,one of our algorithms achieves a good tradeoff between complexity and performance and thus is especially fit for massive MIMO systems.

Hybrid Precoding for mm Wave Massive MIMO Systems with Different Antenna Arrays

In this paper, the performance of hybrid precoding is investigated for mmWave massive MIMO systems with different antenna arrays. The hybrid precoding with partially connected architecture (PCA) is adopted. The spectral efficiency (SE) and received energy efficiency (EE) are investigated by considering four types of antenna arrays, including uniform linear array (ULA), uniform rectangular planar array (URPA), uniform hexagonal planar array (UHPA), and uniform circular planar array (UCPA), respectively. We focus on analysis at the antenna response vector and utilize the idea of orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm to seek the optimal hybrid precoder. Furthermore, the trade-off of precoding architectures is studied between SE and received EE. Simulation results show that if the uniform planar array antenna is more concentrated, the SE and receive EE will be higher. Considering SE and received EE, the performance of planar arrays outperform linear array. There exist different optimal radio-frequency chain numbers to maximize the SE for planar array and linear array. In addition, the PCA can achieve relatively higher received EE while the SE is close to the fully connected architecture and the full digital architecture.

Invited Paper: Antenna Selection in Energy Efficient MIMO Systems: A Survey

With the explosive growth and need for high-speed wireless communications, more and more energy is consumed to support the required quality of service. Therefore, energy efficient or green communication has become a very hot topic under the ground of limited energy resource and environmentally friendly transmission schemes. MIMO technique is capable of reducing the transmission power thanks to its diversity and multiplexing gain. Moreover, antenna selection(AS) is an alternative to extract many of the benefits in MIMO systems with a reduced cost of complexity and power. Although many works including several survey papers have investigated AS in MIMO systems, the goal of these works is only the capacity maximization or error rate minimization, which fails to guarantee the optimality of the energy efficiency in MIMO systems. In this paper, we overview the state of the art in the AS schemes in energy efficient MIMO systems, the goal of which is to optimize the energy efficiency of the whole system. Specifically, we introduce energy efficient AS in point-to-point MIMO, cooperative MIMO, multiuser MIMO and largescale MIMO systems, respectively. Several challenging and practical issues in this area are also addressed.

基于新型共面波导的频率可重构MIMO天线设计

设计了一种基于新型共面波导(CPW)频率可重构多输入多输出(MIMO)天线。在天线中使用开关元件,通过控制开关改变CPW的电流长度来实现6.17~9.38 GHz与19.53~25.48 GHz离散频率可调。转换模式不需要额外的匹配电路,使得结构更紧凑。天线单元采用CPW馈电方式,蚀刻在F4B的介质基板上,MIMO配置无需额外的解耦装置便能实现良好的隔离效果。仿真和测试结果表明,单个天线与MIMO天线均可实现频率可重构特性,天线单元之间的隔离度<-20 dB,相关包络系数<0.05,分集增益接近10 dB,满足设计要求。

5G-R高铁车站场景MIMO天线阵列结构与传输性能研究

面向5G-R高铁车站应用场景,在2155~2165 MHz频段采用射线跟踪仿真技术,对4种不同天线阵列排布方式的MIMO系统多层传输性能进行对比研究。通过研究采取不同收发端天线阵列排布方式时的信道相关性,计算每个接收点位所能达到的MIMO系统最大传输层数,获取各层数对应的信噪比,计算在不同调制方式、不同天线排布方式下每个接收点位的下行峰值传输速率,确定面向5G-R高铁车站场景的MIMO系统最佳传输层数。仿真验证结果表明,面向5G-R频段高铁车站应用场景,基站端采用线阵、车载端采用方阵排列,可取得最佳峰值传输速率。研究结果可为5G-R专网建设中高铁车站部署MIMO系统提供技术积累和理论依据。

采用螺旋线实现高隔离度的车载多频宽带MIMO天线

为解决车载天线工作带宽窄和MIMO天线低频段隔离度低等问题,提出一种应用于车载通信系统的多频宽带高隔离度的MIMO天线,其工作频段为824~960 MHz和1710~6000 MHz,可覆盖民用移动通信的2G/3G/4G/5G和无线局域网/车联网等频段。单极子天线单元采用弯曲、开槽等诸多技术实现多频宽带,还通过添加接地枝节来降低天线高度和提高物理稳定性;在MIMO天线设计上采用螺旋线来提高天线单元之间的隔离度。实测结果表明,天线在工作频段内的反射系数小于-10 dB,隔离度小于-20 dB,低频段增益和辐射效率略低,中高频段的增益均大于4 dBi,最高达到7 dBi,效率均高于70%,最高可以达到96%。实测数据与仿真数据具有良好的一致性,所研制的天线可满足车载天线对多频段通信和高隔离度MIMO天线的技术要求,其结构和尺寸专为安装于汽车内部中控台背面而设计。

用于5G智能手机的宽带高隔离度MIMO天线

提出了一种用于第五代移动通信(5G)智能手机的紧凑型宽带高隔离度多输入多输出(Multiple-Input Multiple-Output,MIMO)天线对,将其在手机两侧边框内表面对称放置,组成相关性低的8元MIMO阵列。采用耦合馈电方式设计了宽带倒F天线(IFA)单元,以零间距镜像对称的方式组成一个结构紧凑的双单元天线对,其-6 dB阻抗带宽为3.3~6.5 GHz(65.3%),完全覆盖了n77/n78/n79和LTE band 46的5G频段,其尺寸仅为26.8 mm×6 mm(0.29λ0×0.07λ0,λ0为3.3 GHz的自由空间波长)。利用差/共模对消理论及加载分布式电容的方法提高了天线对两端口间隔离度,带内隔离度高于11 dB,在n79和LTE band 46频段(4.4~5.925 GHz)隔离度高于15 dB,且在4.9 GHz中心频点处的峰值隔离度能达到40 dB,在整个带内的天线总效率为59%~88.8%。为了提高8元MIMO阵列隔离度,在相邻两天线对之间的接地板上蚀刻矩形缺陷地去耦结构,单元间包络相关系数(Envelope Correlation Coefficient,ECC)均小于0.1。对该天线阵列进行加工实测,仿真和测量结果基本一致。