Near-field magnetic induction (NFMI) is a short range wireless technology that uses loop antennas coupled by a magnetic field. NFMI antennas are electrically small and thus extremely inefficient and narrow band, making system design for multi-user and high-bitrate applications challenging. The goals of this thesis are to develop a test platform suitable for NFMI antenna testing, to model, design and test NFMI antennas that have high bandwidth-efficiency, and to explore the possibility of using MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) to increase the capacity of the NFMI channel. This thesis provides system implementations, test results, and channel modeling to aid in the design of future NFMI systems. Implementation of a multi-channel discrete-time wireless system are provided for PC-based software and FPGA-based firmware as a platform for antenna testing. Optimized antenna designs in terms of efficiency and bandwidth are presented, achieving the theoretical bandwidth-efficiency bound for small antennas. Preliminary modeling and simulation results for the NFMI-MIMO channel are included, which show that the information-theoretic capacity of the NFMI-MIMO channel is approximately double the standard single-antenna NFMI capacity at 10 bits/s/Hz.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BGMYU2/oai:scholarsarchive.byu.edu:etd-4323 |
| Date | 05 July 2012 |
| Creators | Gottula, Ronald Brett |
| Publisher | BYU ScholarsArchive |
| Source Sets | Brigham Young University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
| Rights | http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/ |
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