Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) have drawn considerable attentions of the researchers for the last few years. MANETs, consisting of mobile nodes, are self-organizing and self-configuring and hence can be deployed without any infrastructure support. MANETs also have some limitations including short-life, unreliability, scalability, latency, high interference, and limited resources. In order to o...

A novel modified printed monopole antenna with variable frequency band-notch characteristic for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a truncated ground plane and a radiating patch with two tapered steps. To generate a notch band at 5–6GHz with good level of band-notch a new T-shaped parasitic element placed on the back layer of the substrate along wit...

A compact design of a circularly-polarized (CP) antenna to achieve wide-band behavior for WiMax applications is presented. Single feed is used to excite a single-layered square patch integrated with a novel Y-shaped slot and two different truncated corners to achieve CP polarization. Besides its structural simplicity, ease of fabrication and low cost, the proposed antenna features a satisfactor...

A novel bandwidth enhancement design of planar Fshaped dipole antenna for RFID tag is proposed. With the use of two parasitic strips inset along the closed loop of the input IC chip in this proposed tag antenna, a new resonant mode close to 900 MHz band is excited to enhance the operating bandwidth. The obtained impedance bandwidth across the operating band can reach about 104 MHz for UHF band....

Terrestrial digital broadcasting services in Japan will start in 2003, and conventional analog broadcasting will be terminated in 2011. However, it has been reported that the mobile reception quality for the terrestrial digital broadcasting is significantly reduced for high bit rate transmissions such as high definition television broadcasting. In this study, the reception quality of terrestria...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) incorporate smart antennas for information propagation to offer connected coverage with reduced interference. This paper presents an omni directional antenna assisted scheme for WSNs to reduce network redundancy besides offering connected coverage. The directivity of an omni directional antenna outfitted on a sink node is exploited to reduce network redundancy an...

Multipath routing protocols are distinguished from single-path routing by the fact that they look for and use several routes from a source to destination. Several routing schemes have been proposed in the context of mobile ad hoc networks that uses multiple paths simultaneously by splitting the information among the multitude of paths. However, the effect of route coupling in this environment c...

Large channel capacity is achieved by MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) technology with multi-antenna at the transmitting and receiving side [1]. Many studies to maximize the MIMO channel capacity have been performed, and measurements show that channel capacity is enhanced by directional antennas [2] and multi-polarization [3] in indoor environment. Various MIMO antennas with pattern and po...

In the days of modern communication, the compact size, low profile antenna with the directional capability is demanded for the wireless communication applications. To fulfill this requirement two new structures of antennas are designed. Two different geometries of microstrip antenna for triple band and Tetra band operation have been investigated in this paper with a new concept of T-slot in the...

A new four elements compact antenna array is presented and discussed to achieve enhanced phase resolution without sacrificing the array output power. This structure inspired by the Ormia Ochracea’s coupled ears. The analogy between this insect acute directional hearing capabilities and the electrically compact antenna array is used to enhance the array sensitivity to direction of arrival estima...