Design of smart antenna using planar phased-array antenna for wireless communication systems

Author(s):  
Ayodele S. Oluwole ◽  
Viranjay M. Srivastava
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaddrack Yaw Nusenu ◽  
Abdul Basit

Wireless communication systems have gained considerable growth rate nowadays, with the anticipation that communications will be available everywhere and anywhere in the near future. Phased array antenna whose beam steering is fixed in an angle for all range cells has been utilized for wireless communications. To mitigate this problem, a new array concept, namely, frequency diverse array (FDA), was proposed. This paper presents how FDA technology could be useful in today’s wireless communication technology. FDA is distinct from phased array in a sense that it employs frequency increment across array elements. The use of a frequency increment creates a beam steering that is a function of angle, time, and range which allows the FDA antenna to transmit the energy along the prespecified range and angle direction. In addition, we consider the time-variant beampattern aspect of an FDA, which has normally been ignored in the literature. In this study, we present the mathematical fundamentals of FDA antenna and why it could be exploited for wireless communication systems. Furthermore, FDA using Butler matrix for communication has been discussed. Performance analysis in terms of transmit beampattern, signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR), and direction of arrival has been presented and compared with that of phased array antenna.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Bowen Zheng ◽  
Songlin Sun ◽  
Guoyuan Shao

In recent years, directional antennas or phased array antennas are being widely used in communication systems due to the higher antenna gains. However, without external time synchronization and angle synchronization, the unsynchronized node usually takes a long time to synchronize with the existing nodes due to the narrow beams. Although the multibeam transmission or the digital phased array antenna can reduce this problem, it is clear that the cost of the digital phased array antenna is currently too high. Without external time synchronization and angle synchronization, a cooperative antenna selection method based on directional antennas is proposed in this paper. Our method only uses the narrow beams to transmit and to receive and reduces the time for self-synchronization. In this paper, we give the expression of the expected average time for the self-synchronization of multiple nodes, transform the problem into the problem of finding the minimum value of the infinite norm of the sequence, and then propose a cooperative antenna selection method which calculates the optimal transmission probability distribution of the node in different directions through parameter sharing and relative geometric position relationship between nodes. Finally, we verify the proposed method through simulation, and the number of beams is set between 6 and 10. In a typical scenario of five nodes, our method reduces the maximum average self-synchronization time by 50% averagely, compared with the traditional method which sends the different antenna beams at equal probability.


In wireless communication systems, designing of antennae with required parameters is an challenging issue. So, The approach in this paper is to design a corporate fed 2 element antenna array is designed to operate at 2.4 GHz using an FR-4 substrate of height h=1.6mm. For wireless application all the antenna parameters are analysed for two element array antenna with element spacing λ, λ/2 and with miters. It is observed that bandwidth decreases by decreasing the element spacing. But by using miters for antenna with element spacing bandwidth and reflection coefficient are improved. All the antennae are fabricated and tested using VNA E5071C.


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