TY - GEN
T1 - Reconfigurable antennas in highly multipath environments
AU - Measel, Ryan
AU - Lester, Christopher S.
AU - Bucci, Donald J.
AU - Wanuga, Kevin
AU - Tait, Gregory
AU - Primerano, Richard
AU - Dandekar, Kapil R.
AU - Kam, Moshe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/9/18
Y1 - 2014/9/18
N2 - Highly reflective environments, such as ships, aircraft, and industrial warehouses, can be challenging for wireless communications. This effort investigates the use of transmitter-side reconfigurable antennas to mitigate the effect of multipath interference in such environments. Software-defined radios were used to transmit and receive IEEE 802.11g OFDM packets in 'tuned' reverberation chambers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA. The reconfigurable antenna improved signal integrity by 4.9 dB over a conventional, omnidirectional antenna for SISO, and by a smaller margin for MRC. The reconfigurable antenna achieved greater capacity than the omnidirectional antenna with 16% improvement. It is concluded that reconfigurable antennas are well suited for use with access points and other stationary network infrastructure to facilitate the design and mobility of receivers in highly reflective environments.
AB - Highly reflective environments, such as ships, aircraft, and industrial warehouses, can be challenging for wireless communications. This effort investigates the use of transmitter-side reconfigurable antennas to mitigate the effect of multipath interference in such environments. Software-defined radios were used to transmit and receive IEEE 802.11g OFDM packets in 'tuned' reverberation chambers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, VA. The reconfigurable antenna improved signal integrity by 4.9 dB over a conventional, omnidirectional antenna for SISO, and by a smaller margin for MRC. The reconfigurable antenna achieved greater capacity than the omnidirectional antenna with 16% improvement. It is concluded that reconfigurable antennas are well suited for use with access points and other stationary network infrastructure to facilitate the design and mobility of receivers in highly reflective environments.
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U2 - 10.1109/APS.2014.6904529
DO - 10.1109/APS.2014.6904529
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84907880379
T3 - IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)
SP - 394
EP - 395
BT - 2014 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium(APSURSI)
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, APSURSI 2014
Y2 - 6 July 2014 through 11 July 2014
ER -