Impact of antenna design on MIMO performance for compact terminals with adaptive impedance matching
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Summary, in English
Using the metrics of channel capacity and multiplexing efficiency, the adaptive impedance matching (AIM) performances of two multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) terminals with different antenna designs were evaluated and compared. The evaluation was performed in LTE Band 18 Downlink (860-875 MHz) under realistic usage conditions of two measured user handgrips and simulated propagation channels with different angular spreads (ASs). The results provide potential performance gains from AIM based on realistic MIMO terminal prototypes, and the underlying mechanisms by which the gains were achieved, which can serve as antenna and AIM circuit design guidelines. In particular, the evaluation revealed that ideal uncoupled AIM networks can increase the capacity by up to 52% relative to 50 ohm terminations. However, the observed gains depend heavily on the antenna design, the user scenario and the channel’s angular spread. For example, the wideband design in different user cases experienced capacity gain of 4-9% from AIM in uniform 3D channels, in contrast to the 1.3-44% gain seen in a conventional narrowband design. In non-uniform channels with small ASs, the AIM gain for different mean incident angles depends on the absolute mean effective gain (MEG) and the change in correlation due to AIM; In cases where AIM has little impact on correlation, the mean incident angles with high AIM gains were close to those with high MEGs.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2016-04
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1454-1465
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volym
64
Issue
4
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Ämne
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Nyckelord
- MIMO systems
- impedance matching
- antenna measurements
- handset antennas and multipath channels
Status
Published
Projekt
- EIT_ANTCHN Antenna-Channel Harmonization for Throughput Enhancement in Advanced Mobile Terminals
- EIT_Optantsys Novel Antenna System Design Paradigm for High Performance Mobile Communications
- ELLIIT LU P01: 5G Wireless
Forskningsgrupp
- Communications Engineering
- Electromagnetic theory
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0018-926X