In this thesis, the 2×2 MIMO performance of several low mutual coupling antennas has been investigated in indoor and hallway scenarios. Three compact antennas intended for mobile applications with low mutual coupling between the input ports are presented in this thesis. To gauge the performances of the three designed antennas, two reference antennas are also used. Channel capacity measurements were conducted in Bahen Center Antenna Lab room 8175 and the Bahen Center 8th floor hallway by using the five antennas as receivers. The antenna spatial location, orientation, line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight situation and richness of multipath effect were considered in the measurements. By averaging the results, it is found that in an indoor environment, low mutual coupling antennas can outperform the reference high mutual coupling antennas especially in higher SNR scenarios. In the hallway environment, low mutual coupling antennas always outperform the reference high mutual coupling antennas due to pattern diversity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OTU.1807/35610 |
| Date | 12 July 2013 |
| Creators | He, Yuchu |
| Contributors | Eleftheriades, George V. |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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