Diversity Gain through Antenna Blocking

Signal Correlations and Diversity Gain of Two-Beam Microcell Antenna

The motivation of the present study is to investigate the possibility of using two independently directed antenna beams in a mobile base station to provide diversity gain and reduce fading problems in a microcellular environment. In this paper, the signal correlation of the individual antenna beams is studied, and it is shown that correlation depends on beamwidth, separation angle of the antenn...

Wake-Up Receiver with Equal-Gain Antenna Diversity †

Small scale fading signals resulting from multipath propagation can cause signal strength variations in the range of several dB. Resulting from the fluctuating signal strengths, the wake-up packet reception rate can decrease significantly. Using antenna diversity can greatly mitigate these effects. This article presents a novel wireless sensor node with wake-up receiver that uses an equal-gain ...

Polarization Diversity Gain and Base Station Antenna Characteristics

Dual polarized antennas are traditionally characterized in terms of port-to-port isolation and coand cross-polar radiation patterns. In this paper we instead identify the critical parameter when the antenna is used as a sensor in a polarization diversity reception system. This turns out to be the fareld coupling between the two channels. We calculate the antenna output power correlation and div...

Microstrip Antenna Gain Enhancement using Near Zero Refractive Index Metamaterials

Some useful features of microstrip patch antennas are low profile, low weight and easy fabrication. However this type of antenna suffers from having a low gain, caused by propagation surface waves. In this paper, a new near zero refractive index metamaterial (MTM) unit cell is designed and fabricated as a superstrate over a Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antennas (RMPA). In order to obtain a maxi...

AVR2021: AT86RF231 Antenna Diversity