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A Stochastic Approach to Design MIMO Antenna with Parasitic Elements Based on Propagation Characteristics
Naoki HONMA Kentaro NISHIMORI Riichi KUDO Yasushi TAKATORI Takefumi HIRAGURI Masato MIZOGUCHI
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Vol.E93-B
No.10
pp.2578-2585 Publication Date: 2010/10/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E93.B.2578 Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advanced Technologies in Antennas and Propagation in Conjunction with Main Topics of ISAP2009) Category: Antennas Keyword: MIMO, parasitic antennas, mobile antennas, Yagi-Uda arrays,
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Summary:
This paper proposes a channel capacity maximization method for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas with parasitic elements. Reactive terminations are connected to the parasitic elements, and the reactance values are determined to achieve stochastically high channel capacity for the environment targeted. This method treats the S-parameter and propagation channel of the antenna, including the parasitic elements, as a combined circuit. The idea of the 'parasitic channel,' which is observed at the parasitic antenna, is introduced to simplify the optimization procedure. This method can significantly reduce the number of necessary measurements of the channel for designing the antenna. As a design example, a bidirectional Yagi-Uda array, which has two driven antennas at both ends of the linear array, is measured in an indoor environment. The resulting design offers enhanced channel capacity mainly due to its improved signal-to-noise ratio compared to the antenna without the parasitic antennas.
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