Design and Measurement-Based Evaluation of Multi-Antenna Mobile Terminals for LTE 3500 MHz Band
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2013

Design of multi-element antennas for small mobile terminals operating at higher frequencies remains challenging despite smaller antenna dimension and possibility of achieving electrically large separation between them. In this paper, the importance of the type of radiating elements operating at 3400-3600 MHz and their locations on the terminal chassis are highlighted. An isotropic radiation pattern that receives incoming signals from arbitrary directions is obtained by combining the radiation patterns of multiple antennas with localized chassis current distribution. Four multiport antennas configurations with two- and eight-element antennas are designed and evaluated experimentally in indoor propagation environments. Our proposed designs of multi-element antennas provide the highest MIMO channel capacity compared to their counterparts using antennas with less localized chassis current distribution, even in the presence of user's hand.

Antenna Chassis

LTE Systems

Multiport Antennas

Författare

Abdullah Al-Hadi Azremi

Universiti Malaysia Perlis

Aalto-Yliopisto

Nima Jamaly

Chalmers, Signaler och system, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Katsuyuki Haneda

Aalto-Yliopisto

Clemens Icheln

Aalto-Yliopisto

Ville Viikari

Aalto-Yliopisto

Progress in Electromagnetics Research B

1937-6472 (ISSN)

Vol. 53 53 241-266

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

Kommunikationssystem

Elektroteknik och elektronik

DOI

10.2528/PIERB13061205

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