Novel Compact UWB Band Notch Antenna Design for Body-Centric Communications

This research analyzes and implements an innovative and tiny ultrawideband(UWB)antenna with band-notched features for body-centric communication.The shape of the designed antenna looks like a‘swan’with a slotted patch.Computer Simulation Technology(CST)is used to assess and investigate the performance of this antenna.With a band notch,this antenna can prevent interference from Wireless Local Area Network(WLAN)(5.15–5.825 GHz)and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access(WiMAX)(5.25–5.85 GHz)systems.At first,the performance parameters like return loss response,gain,radiation patterns,and radiation efficiency of this UWB antenna are evaluated.After that,the human body effects on the antenna performance of the antenna are also examined to place the antenna at various distances away from 3-layers of phantom body model at different frequencies.All the on-body performance parameter results are compared and analyzed with free space performance parameter results.Lastly,by changing patch slot length and ground plane length,parametric studies were done for performance comparison.According to this research,it is noticed that the antenna is tiny and new.It shows good performance in body case as well.Hence,the antenna is very suitable for healthcare applications.

Adaptive blind gain correction of time-interleaved ADCs forwide-band communication applications

High spectral efficiency is essential in design of multimedia communication systems such as L-band mobile in addition to various requirements of transmission quality. Time-interleaved A/D converter （TI-ADC） is an effective candidate to implement wide-band ADC with relatively slow circuits accounting for digital spectrum management. However, practical performance of TI-ADC is largely limited because of mismatches between different channels originated from manufacturing process variations. In this paper, a blind adaptive method is proposed to correct gain mismatch errors in TI-ADC, and it is verified through simulations on a two-channel TI-ADC. In proposed method, gain mismatch error is estimated and corrected in an adaptive scheme. Proposed compensated T1-ADC architecture is structurally very simple and hence suitable for realiza- tion in integrated circuits. Besides, proposed digital compensation algorithm not only is computationally efficient but also provides an improvement of 32.7 dB in the performance of two-channel TI ADC.

Performance of multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra wide-band system on IEEE UWB channels

Multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) ultra wide-band (UWB) is a novel wireless communication technology. It has many advantages and is being actively researhed. In this study, we constructed and implemented a simulation model of UWB communication systems in Simulink. We found the MB-OFDM UWB system has the best performance in distance between 4 m to 10 m without the line-of-sight requirement.

A NOVEL ULTRA WIDEBAND MONOPOLE ANTENNA WITH BAND-NOTCHED CHARACTERISTICS

A simple and compact microstrip-fed Ultra WideBand(UWB) printed monopole antenna with band-notched characteristic is proposed in this paper.The antenna is composed of a square ring with a small strip bar,so that the antenna occupies about 7.69 GHz bandwidth covering 3.11～10.8 GHz with expected band rejection from 5.12 GHz to 5.87 GHz.A quasi-omnidirectional and quasi-sym-metrical radiation pattern is also obtained.This kind of band-notched UWB antenna requires no ex-ternal filters and thus greatly simplifies the system design of UWB wireless communication.

Experimental Study of On-Body Radio Channel Performance of a Compact Ultra Wideband Antenna

In this paper, on-body radio channel performance of a compact ultra wideband (UWB) antenna is investigated for body-centric wireless communications. Measurement campaigns were first done in the chamber and then repeated in an indoor environment for comparison. The path loss parameter for eight different on-body radio channels has been characterized and analyzed. In addition, the path loss was modeled as a function of distance for 34 different receiver locations for propagation along the front part of the body. Results and analysis show that, compared with anechoic chamber, a reduction of 16.34% path loss exponent is noticed in indoor environment. The antenna shows very good on-body radio channel performance and will be a suitable candidate for future efficient and reliable body-centric wireless communications.

A Collaborative Machine Learning Scheme for Traffic Allocation and Load Balancing for URLLC Service in 5G and Beyond

Key challenges for 5G and Beyond networks relate with the requirements for exceptionally low latency, high reliability, and extremely high data rates. The Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) use case is the trickiest to support and current research is focused on physical or MAC layer solutions, while proposals focused on the network layer using Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms running on base stations and User Equipment (UE) or Internet of Things (IoT) devices are in early stages. In this paper, we describe the operation rationale of the most recent relevant ML algorithms and techniques, and we propose and validate ML algorithms running on both cells (base stations/gNBs) and UEs or IoT devices to handle URLLC service control. One ML algorithm runs on base stations to evaluate latency demands and offload traffic in case of need, while another lightweight algorithm runs on UEs and IoT devices to rank cells with the best URLLC service in real-time to indicate the best one cell for a UE or IoT device to camp. We show that the interplay of these algorithms leads to good service control and eventually optimal load allocation, under slow load mobility. .

Dual Band BPF Based on Parallel Coupled Lines Loaded by Open Stubs for Ku-Band Satellite Applications

This paper presents a dual band Band Pass Filter (BPF) operating at both the downlink and uplink frequency bands for Ku-band satellite applications. The commonly used frequency band in mobile communications satellites is the Ku-band. These mobile satellite systems help connect remote regions, vehicles, ships, people and aircraft to other parts of the world and/or other mobile or stationary communications units, in addition to serving as navigation systems. The structure of the proposed filter is based on parallel coupled microstrip lines and four sections are used. Tuning the two operational bands can be achieved using two open-circuited stubs at the first and last sections of the parallel coupled microstrip lines. The proposed filter is adjusted to operate at 12.54 GHz and 14.14 GHz for downlink and uplink bands, respectively. The proposed dual band BPF is fabricated, measured, and good agreement is obtained between simulated and measured results.

New band-notched UWB antenna

A simple and compact ultra wideband （UWB） printed monopole antenna with band-notched performance is proposed in this paper. The antenna is partially grounded so that the Q value is depressed and the impedance bandwidth is broadened. A small strip bar is loaded on each arm of the similar U-shaped radiator. The impedance bandwidth of the antenna overlap with IEEE 802.11a is rejected consequently. The geometry parameters of the antenna are investigated and optimized with HFSS. The measured bandwidth of the proposed antenna occupies about 7.89 GHz covering from 3.05 GHz to 10.94 GHz with expected notched band from 4.96 GHz to 5.98 GHz. A quasi-omnidirectional and quasi-symmetrical radiation pattern in the whole band is also obtained. As a result, a UWB wireless communication system can be simplified with the band-notched UWB antenna presented.

Optimization of band-notched UWB antenna using micro-genetic algorithm combined with FDTD

The micro-genetic algorithm (MGA) optimization combined with the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is applied to design a band-notched ultra wide-band (UWB) antenna. A U-type slot on a stepped U-type UWB monopole is used to obtain the band-notched characteristic for 5 GHz wireless local area network (WLAN) band. The measured results show that voltage standing wave ration (VSWR) less than 2 covers 3.1-10.6 GHz operating band and VSWR more than 2 is within 5.150-5.825 GHz notched one with the highest value of 5.6. Agreement among the calculated, HFSS simulated and measured results validates the effiectiveness of this MGA-FDTD method, which is efficient for UWB antennas design.

A Design of WCDMA RF Transceiver with Its Performance Measuring

A 2-GHz radio frequency transceiver is presented and implemented for third generation mobile communications using wide-band code division multiple access （WCDMA） scheme. Performance measuring systems are introduced for transmitter channel and receiver sensitivity, respectively. The transceiver achieves maximum output power of 22 dBm, dynamic range of 85 dB, adjacent channel power rejection ratio （ACPR） of -41dB@5MHz, and receiver sensitivity of-119.6 dBm for 128-kb/s data at 3.84-Mcps spreading rate. The measured results indicate the conformity to the required commercial 2.0-GHz WCDMA specification and 3GPP requirements.

CMOS mm-wave transceivers for Gbps wireless communication

The challenges in the design of CMOS millimeter-wave （mm-wave） transceiver for Gbps wireless com- munication are discussed. To support the Gbps data rate, the link bandwidth of the receiver/transmitter must be wide enough, which puts a lot of pressure on the mm-wave front-end as well as on the baseband circuit. This paper discusses the effects of the limited link bandwidth on the transceiver system performance and overviews the band- width expansion techniques for mm-wave amplifiers and IF programmable gain amplifier. Furthermore, dual-mode power amplifier （PA） and self-healing technique are introduced to improve the PA＇s average efficiency and to deal with the process, voltage, and temperature variation issue, respectively. Several fully-integrated CMOS mm-wave transceivers are also presented to give a short overview on the state-of-the-art mm-wave transceivers.

A novel repetition space-time coding scheme for mobile FSO systems

Considering the influence of more random atmospheric turbulence, worse pointing errors and highly dynamic link on the transmission performance of mobile multiple-input multiple-output （MIMO） free space optics （FSO） communica- tion systems, this paper establishes a channel model for the mobile platform. Based on the combination of Alamouti space-time code and time hopping ultra-wide band （TH-UWB） communications, a novel repetition space-time coding （RSTC） method for mobile 2x2 free-space optical communications with pulse position modulation （PPM） is devel- oped. In particular, two decoding methods of equal gain combining （EGC） maximum likelihood detection （MLD） and correlation matrix detection （CMD） are derived. When a quasi-static fading and weak turbulence channel model are considered, simulation results show that whether the channel state information （CSI） is known or not, the coding sys- tem demonstrates more significant performance of the symbol error rate （SER） than the uncoding. In other words, transmitting diversity can be achieved while conveying the information only through the time delays of the modulated signals transmitted from different antennas. CMD has almost the same effect of signal combining with maximal ratio combining （MRC）. However, when the channel correlation increases, SER performance of the coding 2×2 system de- grades significantly.

Network slicing based joint optimization of beamforming and resource selection scheme for energy efficient D2D networks

The integration of network slicing into a Device-to-Device(D2D)network is a promising technological approach for efficiently accommodating Enhanced Mobile Broadband(eMBB)and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication(URLLC)services.In this work,we aim to optimize energy efficiency and resource allocation in a D2D underlay cellular network by jointly optimizing beamforming and Resource Sharing Unit(RSU)selection.The problem of our investigation involves a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Program(MINLP).To solve the problem effectively,we utilize the concept of the Dinkelbach method,the iterative weightedℓ1-norm technique,and the principles of Difference of Convex(DC)programming.To simplify the solution,we merge these methods into a two-step process using Semi-Definite Relaxation(SDR)and Successive Convex Approximation(SCA).The integration of network slicing and the optimization of short packet transmission are the proposed strategies to enhance spectral efficiency and satisfy the demand for low-latency and high-data-rate requirement applications.The Simulation results validate that the proposed method outperforms the benchmark schemes,demonstrating higher throughput ranging from 11.79%to 28.67%for URLLC users,and 13.67%to 35.89%for eMBB users,respectively.