Smart antenna technology is a challenging area in the development of wireless communications. Using smart antennas the quality of a radio link can be improved by many ways. Smart antennas are active antenna arrays or groups with changeable complex-valued weights at inputs and outputs. Good electrical matching of the array and the similarity and ideality of element patterns is usually expected. ...

Determination of mutual inductance in the WPT system based on the electromagnetic coupling mode is crucial for system design and efficiency optimization. The analytic formulas and experimental methods which only aim at a coupling coil with a certain type of configuration and parameters are not universal approaches. Therefore they can’t serve as a design basis for the system optimization. This p...

A compact CPW-fed double T-Shaped antenna is proposed for dual-band wireless local area network (WLAN) operations. For the proposed antenna, the -10 dB return loss bandwidth could reach about 25.5% for the 2.4 GHz band and 5.7 % for the 5 GHz band, which meet the required bandwidth specification of WLAN standard. To reduce the mutual coupling and get high isolation between two dual-band antenna...

A new model for tacking mutual coupling in wireless communications is introduced. A new concept of receiving mutual impedance is introduced and explained theoretically. Receiving mutual impedances for typical antenna arrays are obtained. Application of the new method is demonstrated in several arrays for direction finding, adaptive nulling, and MIMO communications.

An improved mutual coupling calibration approach based on the element pattern reconstruction (EPR) method is proposed in this paper. Compared to previous calibration methods in which the calibration is carried out in the entire space, the space angle ranges to be calibrated in this method is partitioned according to the interested directions. Through the partition of the space angle region, the...

A very simple approach for bandwidth enhancement, reducing the mutual coupling and return loss of 1x2 rectangular patches multiple inputs and multiple outputs (MIMO) antenna for Wi-Max operation is proposed. Resonate frequency of proposed antenna is 6.2GHz. For enhancing the bandwidth a simple rectangular slot has been used and bandwidth is enhanced from 3% to 13% at -11dB of return loss. For r...

Sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) has given renewed interest to the problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. It is generally assumed that the measurement matrix in SBL is precisely known. Unfortunately, this assumption may be invalid in practice due to the imperfect manifold caused by unknown or misspecified mutual coupling. This paper describes a modified SBL method for joint estimation ...

Electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structures are usually realized by periodic arrangement of dielectric materials. These periodic structures can help in the reduction of mutual coupling in array antennas. In this paper a new arrangement of EBG structures is presented for reducing mutual coupling between patch antenna MIMO arrays. The patch antennas operate at 5.35GHz which is defined for wireless ...

This paper deals with the interference rejection capability of circular antenna arrays, as base stations of wireless communications systems. In general, this figure of merit depends strongly on the array configuration and is a function of the direction of arrival of the desired signal, the number of antenna elements, and their spacing. The main goal and contribution of this paper is to provide ...

This paper investigates the benefit of mutual coupling compensation via a method of moments (MoM) approach in a uniform circular antenna array operating at 1.8 GHz. This mutual coupling compensation technique is applied to a direction of arrival (DOA) study of up to two cochannel mobile users. Field measurements and computer simulations are examined to explore the assumptions of the technique a...