This article discusses the direction-of-arrival estimation of plane waves impinging on an antenna array. Special attention is devoted to the incorporation of mutual coupling between the antenna elements of the array into the estimation algorithm. More complex antenna array configurations are considered, which have a better performance for directionof-arrival estimation. Keywords—Direction-of-ar...

The digital beamforming antenna array is one of the most important components in wireless communication systems used in defence applications to improve the system capacity and spectral efficiency. The pattern synthesis of active antenna array is required in many defence applications like radar, satellite communication, sonar, mobile communication etc., where interference signals are considered ...

We investigate the behaviour of MIMO capacity when the size of the antenna array is constrained. By increasing the number of antennas within a small region in space the antenna array becomes dense and spatial correlation inhibits capacity growth. A theoretically derived antenna saturation point is shown to exist for dense array MIMO systems, at which there is no capacity growth with increasing ...

In this paper, an antenna array structure consisting of a reflector plate and a number of printed dipole radiation elements is investigated. This antenna array implementation is suitable for the globally available 2.4GHz and 5GHz ISM frequency band facilitating a variety of wireless applications. S-parameters and radiation characteristics are simulated and measured in details. The impact of the...

One of the important issues in many of array systems such as Radar, Sonar, Mobile, and satellite telecommunications is the estimation of DOA of narrowband received signal. CRB is very important in evaluation of parameter estimation. CRB is the lower bound estimation error variance for any unbiased estimation. In this paper, the array antenna with equal distance arrays is extended in two separat...

We propose a push/pull origami antenna, transformable between a single antenna element and a three-element array. In limited space, the proposed origami antenna can work as a single antenna. When the space is not limited and a higher gain is required, the proposed origami antenna can be transformed to a series antenna array by pulling the frame. In order to push the antenna array back to a sing...

this paper proposes a new smart antenna beamforming scheme based on electronically steerable parasitic array radiator (espar). the proposed method is capable of providing better capacity compared to the conventional espar. the termination of each antenna element in this structure comprises a pin diode in addition to a varactor. using pin diode besides the varactor provides more degrees of freed...

Fractal antennas have undergone dramatic changes since they were first considered for wireless systems. Numerous advancements are developed both in the area of fractal shaped elements and fractal antenna array technology for fractal electrodynamics. This paper makes an attempt of applying the concept of fractal antenna array technology in the RF regime to optical antenna array technology in the...

The impedance extension method (IEM) has been proposed so far, as a method for analysis of a huge-scale periodic array antenna for power transmission from space solar power systems (SSPS) to the earth[1][2]. Since the IEM is an approximate method based on active impedance properties of elements in the periodic array antenna[3], the IEM can only be applied to the periodic array antenna. However,...