1st International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications

Research Article

Impact of Ultra Wide-Band Antennas on Communications in a Spatial Cannel

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CROWNCOM.2006.363473,
        author={Mohamed  El-Hadidy and Thomas  Kaiser},
        title={Impact of Ultra Wide-Band Antennas on Communications in a Spatial Cannel},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={Ultra-wideband MIMO Ultra-wideband antennas Ultra-wideband channel model Ray-traching.},
        doi={10.1109/CROWNCOM.2006.363473}
    }
    
  • Mohamed El-Hadidy
    Thomas Kaiser
    Year: 2007
    Impact of Ultra Wide-Band Antennas on Communications in a Spatial Cannel
    CROWNCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2006.363473
Mohamed El-Hadidy1,*, Thomas Kaiser1
  • 1: University Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Communication Systems, Bismarckstr. 81, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
*Contact email: el-hadidy@nts.uni-due.de

Abstract

Aim of this contribution is to study the impact of typical ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas for communications over a spatial wireless channel. In order to adequately consider the directivity properties of real antennas, out analysis is suitably based on a ray tracing UWB channel model since this reflects the dependence on the angle of arrival (AoA) and angle of departure (AoD) of any multipath. A mathematical framework is given which also allows an optimization of such an UWB multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system using different types of transmitting and receiving antennas on behalf of idealistic omnidirectional ones. Beside the angle dependence, the antenna transfer functions are without doubt frequency dependent on such a large UWB bandwidth, so that they will be evaluated with suitable analog design specialized tools for the fast and accurate three-dimensional electromagnetic simulation of high frequency circuits. Simulation results allowing concrete guidelines on the antenna influence are provided in the last section of this paper