Link performance of an ESPAR-antenna array in rich scattering and clustered channels

Bains R, Müller R, Kalis A (2009)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2009

Journal

Wireless Personal Communications Springer Verlag (Germany)

Publisher: Springer Verlag (Germany)

Book Volume: 50

Pages Range: 45-56

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1007/s11277-008-9544-8

Abstract

This paper aims at evaluating the link performance of an electronically steerable passive array radiator (ESPAR) in both rich scattering and clustered channels. Previous work has shown that the performance of an ESPAR-antenna can be comparable to a 2 × 2 multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system in a rich scattering environment. The design of the antenna patterns used for transmission was based on intuition, and therefore cannot be guaranteed to be optimal. In this paper, we design the antenna patterns by minimizing the average inner-product between signals that are transmitted with different antenna patterns. We also evaluate the performance of the ESPAR-antenna at higher spectral-efficiencies than previous literature has done. The performance in terms of spectral-efficiency is evaluated for both rich scattering environments and clustered channels, whereas the performance in terms of symbol error rate is evaluated for rich scattering channels only. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Authors with CRIS profile

Ralf Müller Professur für Informationsübertragung

Involved external institutions

NTNU Trondheim - Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO Norway (NO) Athens Information Technology (AIT) GR Greece (GR)

How to cite

APA:

Bains, R., Müller, R., & Kalis, A. (2009). Link performance of an ESPAR-antenna array in rich scattering and clustered channels. Wireless Personal Communications, 50(1), 45-56. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11277-008-9544-8

MLA:

Bains, R., Ralf Müller, and A. Kalis. "Link performance of an ESPAR-antenna array in rich scattering and clustered channels." Wireless Personal Communications 50.1 (2009): 45-56.

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