This paper presents a study on bow tie antenna with U-shape slot, designated for the Wireless applications. It is designed to work on a thick substrate (h = 1.6mm) with a high dielectric constant ( = 4.4) operating at three frequencies (2.4, 4 and 5GHz). Two U-shaped slots are introduced in the both sides of bow tie antenna in order to achieve a very low return loss at these frequencies. The an...

A compact Ultra wideband (UWB) antenna with bandnotched characteristic is presented in this paper. It has compact size of 30 mm x 31mm and has ultra wide band operation. A ‘C’ shaped slot was introduced to achieve band notch function from 4.8 GHz to 6 GHz to avoid interference from WLAN. The proposed antenna has ultra wide band frequency range from 3 GHz to 11.5 GHz for return loss below -10 dB...

The use of directional antenna in wireless ad hoc networks largely reduces radio interference, thereby improving the utilization of wireless medium and consequently the network throughput, as compared to omnidirectional antenna, where nodes in the vicinity of communication are kept silent. In this context, researchers usually assume that the gain of directional antennas is equal to the gain of ...

In this paper we propose a Directional Antenna Medium Access (DAMA) protocol and its enhanced version called EDAMA (enhanced DAMA), which takes advantage of the benefits offered by directional antennas. Both of these schemes have been inspired by the IEEE 802.11 MAC, with major enhancements including a new neighbor discovery scheme, an optimized circular directional transmission of RTS and CTS ...

In this paper we propose a Directional Antenna Medium Access (DAMA) protocol and its enhanced version called EDAMA (enhanced DAMA), which takes advantage of the benefits offered by directional antennas. Both of these schemes have been inspired by the IEEE 802.11 MAC, with major enhancements including a new neighbor discovery scheme, an optimized circular directional transmission of RTS and CTS ...

This paper presents a low-profile user-terminal antenna for mobile bi-directional Ka-band satellite communication networks for emergency scenarios. We have devised an antenna with a circularly polarised radiation pattern and dual-band capability, which addresses a hybrid tracking. The principle of operation of a rectangular antenna panel applying a dual-band partially reflective surface (PRS) o...

A novel compact multi-band design of planar C-shape monopole antenna with inverted L-shape parasitic strip is proposed for IEEE 802.16 m WiMAX system. The obtained impedance bandwidth across the 2.6/3.5/5.5 GHz operating bands can reach about 240/570/4470 MHz, respectively. Only with the antenna size of 15×30×0.8mm3, the proposed monopole antenna has the compact operation with more than 25% ant...

A printed dipole antenna with integrated balun is presented. The radiating structure is a two-element dipole with resonances at 900 and 1700 MHz, with the balun providing one extra resonance at each band. By co-designing the radiating element with a Marchand balun modified for dual-band operation, an antenna covering the cellular bands 824–960 and 1710–2170 MHz has been achieved. Measurements o...

In this paper, design and analysis of two compact coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed ultra wideband (UWB) slot antenna is presented. The proposed antenna consists of a rectangular slot on a ground plane and a triangular patch and another semi-circular patch at the interior portion of the feed that acts as tuning stub of the antenna. The return loss of the developed antenna are measured and compared, ...

We have observed that the size and shape of the conducting reflector of CPW-fed slot antennas using loading metallic strips and a widened tuning stub have significant impact on the antenna impedance matching and radiation pattern. By shaping the reflecting conductor, noticeable enhancements in both radiation pattern which provides uni-directional all frequency operating band and characteristic ...