Design of a Planar Eleven Antenna for Optimal MIMO Performance as a Wideband Micro Base-station Antenna

A new low-profile planar Eleven antenna is designed for optimal MIMO performance as a wideband MIMO antenna for micro base-stations in future wireless communication systems. The design objective has been to optimize both the reflection coefficient at the input port of the antenna and the 1-bitstream and 2-bitstream MIMO efficiency of the antenna at the same time, in both the Rich Isotropic MultiPath (RIMP) and Random Line-of-Sight (Random-LOS) environments. The planar Eleven antenna can be operated in 2-, 4-, and 8-port modes with slight modifications. The optimization is performed using genetic algorithms. The effects of polarization deficiencies and antenna total embedded efficiency on the MIMO performance of the antenna are further studied. A prototype of the antenna has been fabricated and the design has been verified by measurements against the simulations.Comment: 7 pages, 15 figures, 15 reference

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Stochastic Phased Array Performance Indicators for Quality-of-Service-Enhanced Massive MIMO

In this paper, we show that the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at a base station (BS) equipped with an arbitrary physical array antenna can be expressed as a function of two fundamental figures-of-merit (FoMs): (I) the instantaneous effective gain (IEG), and (II) the beamforming-channel correlation (BCC). These two FoMs are functions of the array antenna layout, the antenna elements, the propagation channel and the applied signal processing algorithms, and hence they are random variables (RVs) in general. We illustrate that both FoMs provide essential insights for quality-of-service (QoS)-based phased array design by investigating their statistics for BSs applying full-digital (FD) zero forcing (ZF) beamforming. We evaluate various array designs and show that arrays with higher IEGs and a reduced probability of low BCCs can increase the ergodic sum rate and reduce the need for scheduling