Performance Evaluation of Actual Multielement Antenna Systems Under Transmit Antenna Selection/Maximal Ratio Combining

Papamichael, V. C.; Karadimas, P.

Abstract

In this letter, the performance of actual multielement antenna (MEA) systems under the transmit antenna selection/maximal ratio combining (TAS/MRC) technique is evaluated. An alternative version of an efficient, recently developed, stochastic electromagnetic methodology is employed to investigate the TAS/MRC performance of five MEA systems operating in the 5.2-GHz ISM band. The MEA systems are comprised two up to six printed antennas, and their performance is evaluated through the diversity gain (DG) at 1% outage probability level. Interestingly, DG degradation is revealed when the number of receiving antennas is six.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Jul 14, 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Deposit Date: Jan 15, 2022
• Journal: IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
• Print ISSN: 1536-1225
• Electronic ISSN: 1548-5757
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 690-692
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/lawp.2011.2161662
• Keywords: Antenna diversity, maximal ratio combining (MRC), outage probability, transmit antenna selection (TAS)
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2835019