Bandwidth and gain enhancement of microstrip patch antennas (MPAs) is proposed using reflective metasurface (RMS) as a superstrate. Two different types of the RMS, namely- the double split-ring resonator (DSR) and double closed-ring resonator (DCR) are separately investigated. The two antenna prototypes were manufactured, measured and compared. The experimental results confirm that the RMS loaded MPAs achieve high-gain as well as bandwidth improvement. The desinged antenna using the RMS as a superstrate has a high-gain of over 9.0dBi and a wide impedance bandwidth of over 13%. The RMS is also utilized to achieve a thin antenna with a cavity height of 6 mm, which is equivalent to λ/21 at the center frequency of 2.45GHz. At the same time, the cross polarization level and front-to-back ratio of these antennas are also examined.

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Design of high gain and high efficiency antennas is one of the key challenges in antenna engineering and especially in millimeter wave communication systems. Various types of planar waveguide arrays with series-fed traveling wave operation have been developed in Tokyo Tech with the special focus upon efficiency enhancement as well as reduction of fabrication cost. In this review, four kinds of single layer waveguide arrays characterized with the series fed travelling wave operation are surveyed first. To cope with the bandwidth narrowing effects due to long line effects associated with the series fed operation, authors have introduced partially corporate feed embedded in the single layer waveguide. They further extended the study to cover fully corporate feed arrays with multiple layer waveguide as well; a new fabrication technique of diffusion bonding of laminated thin plates has the potential to realize the low cost mass production of multi-layer structures for the millimeter wave application. Secondly, the novel methods for loss evaluation of copper plate substrate are established for the design of post-wall waveguide arrays where dielectric loss and conductor loss is determined in wide range of millimeter wave band, by using the Whispering gallery mode resonator. This enables us to design the planar arrays with the loss taken into account. Finally, the planar arrays are now applied to two kinds of systems in the Tokyo Tech millimeter wave project; the indoor short range file-transfer systems and the outdoor communication systems for the medium range backhaul links. The latter has been field-tested in the model network built in Tokyo Tech Ookayama campus. Early stage progress of the project including unique propagation data is also reported.

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This paper describes a spatial fading emulator based on Clarke's model that can evaluate spatial correlation characteristics between signals received by handset antennas including human-body effect under emulated multipath propagation environments. The proposed model is composed of scatterers, phase-shifters and attenuators. The scatterers are located at equal intervals on the circumference of a circle. Phase shifters and attenuators in a control circuit are used to control the phase and amplitude of each wave radiated from the scatterers in order to emulate multi-path propagation environments, such as Rayleigh or Nakagami-Rice distribution, to be generated at their center. In this paper, the maximum distance between receiving antennas that could be used to evaluate spatial correlation characteristics between antennas was investigated experimentally. The measurement results show that 15 scatterers with a radius of 1.5m are sufficient to evaluate spatial correlation characteristics within the branch separation of 1.7λ when parallel dipole antennas are used as receiving antennas.

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Narrow-wall-connected microstrip-to-waveguide transition using V-shaped patch element in millimeter-wave band is proposed. Since the microstrip line on the narrow-wall is perpendicular to the E-plane of the waveguide, waveguide field does not couple directly to the microstrip line. The current on the V-shaped patch element flows along inclined edges, then current on the V-shaped patch element couples to the microstrip line efficiently. Three types of transitions are investigated. A numerical investigation of these transitions show some relations between bandwidth and insertion loss. It is confirmed that the improved transition exhibits an insertion loss of 0.6dB from 76 to 77GHz, and a bandwidth of 4.1% (3.15GHz) for the reflection coefficient below −15dB.

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A compact antenna is proposed for operating at the Federal Communications Commission allocated ultra-wideband (UWB) of 3.1-10.6GHz. The antenna is made by deforming a film antenna which consists of two glass-shaped and square-shaped radiation elements. The antenna in its planar form is optimized for the UWB operation and is deformed by different manners such as folding, meandering or twisting, without much influence on its input characteristics. The deformations not only miniaturize the antenna but also improve its radiation characteristics. A prototype with a dimension of 20 × 33mm² is fabricated and then the antenna is deformed by rolling it into a circular rod with a diameter of 6.4mm, or meandering it into a square rod with a cross-sectional dimension of 6 × 5mm². The deformed antennas maintain the operation at the UWB and have better omni-directional radiation patterns than the antenna in its planar form.

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Introducing diffusion bonding of laminated thin metal plates to the fabrication of slotted waveguide arrays enlightens the high potential and the feasibility of multi-layer antennas with high-performance. It is a promising process with low cost even for a double-layer antenna, because the number of etching patterns for thin metal plates is only five. In this paper, a double-layer antenna for broadband characteristics is designed in 39GHz band as demonstration. A 20 × 20-element antenna is composed of 2 × 2 sub-arrays by installing a partially-corporate feed circuit in the bottom layer underneath radiating waveguides in the top layer. The five-element sub-arrays in both the feeding and radiating parts are designed first. A new structure for the last slot coupler with shortened termination is also proposed to avoid an extra slot-free region when assembling the neighbor sub-arrays. As the simulation results by HFSS, the maximum gain of 34.55dBi with the antenna efficiency of 85.5% is estimated at 38.5GHz. The test antenna is fabricated by the diffusion bonding of thin copper plates. As the measurement results, a very high aperture efficiency of 83.2% with the directivity of 34.5dBi is realized at the center frequency of 38.75GHz, where the antenna gain of 34.4dBi with the high antenna efficiency of 81.4% is achieved. The bandwidth of 5.0% defined as 1dB down from the maximum gain is achieved.

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We developed a slotted waveguide planer array antenna with partially parallel feeding in millimeter-wave band. Travelling-wave excitation is more effective for low loss feeding of array antennas than parallel feeding systems. However, array antenna with travelling-wave excitation essentially possesses a significant problem of long line effect which degrades gain due to beam shift by frequency change when the array antenna is fed from the edge of the radiating waveguide. We propose the way to reduce the gain degradation due to frequency change, thus, partially parallel feeding system is developed. Measured performance of the developed antenna is evaluated in this paper.

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A spiral array radial line slot antenna (SA-RLSA) is designed in 22GHz band. A SA-RLSA excited with a coaxial feeder suffers from aperture illumination fluctuation in amplitude and phase in the circumferential (φ-) direction while in the radial direction, reasonably uniform distribution is observed. Rotational symmetry of radiation patterns is degraded and especially the sidelobe levels are unbalanced. This fluctuation is associated with the generation of the higher order modes in the φ-direction and is the unique defect of SA-RLSA which uses oversized waveguide. In this paper, a novel feeding structure with two pairs of parasitic pins around a coaxial feeder is proposed and designed so as to compensate the rotational asymmetry of aperture illumination. A measurement using the model antenna designed in 22GHz band demonstrates the enhancement of the rotational symmetry; the circumferential fluctuation is reduced from 5.1dB and 33 degrees to 1.8dB and 12 degrees, while the fluctuation in the first sidelobe level suppressed from 10.7dB to 1.2dB.

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Broadband antennas have various applications in digital terrestrial television (DTV) services. Compact broadband antennas are required for arranging in long and narrow space along the rim of a laptop display. A leaky-wave antenna using the composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH-TL) is one of the candidates for achieving the broadband antenna. However, there are not enough to design guideline of small leaky wave antennas using the CRLH-TL for UHF band. In this paper, a CRLH-TL comprising a ladder network is proposed for broadband and simple structure. The paper also discusses the design of a leaky-wave antenna with the CRLH-TL operating in the DTV band. The relation between the operating bandwidth and attenuation constant of the CRLH-TL is discussed. An antenna that can be accommodated in the limited and narrow space available in mobile terminals has to be designed. Hence, the effects of the number of cells and a finite ground plane are discussed with the purpose of achieving the miniaturization of the antenna. In this study, the transmission and radiation characteristics of the fabricated antennas are measured. The gain of the fabricated antenna is confirmed to remain almost constant even when the operating frequency is varied. The maximum gain and operating band achieved in this study are approximately −0.6dBi and about 54%, respectively.

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The use of directional antenna and polarization diversity techniques has been reported to achieve good MIMO performance. Low-profile, small structures are required to configure the MIMO antenna with these techniques. First, we assume downlink transmission in indoor MIMO systems and present the design guidelines for the radiation pattern to obtain large channel capacity by the ray-tracing method. We then propose a uni-directional, dual-polarized MIMO antenna with a thickness of 0.24λ based on the design guidelines. The proposed antenna consists of dipole antennas mounted horizontally to the ground plane and cavity backed slot antennas for vertical polarization. We apply the proposed antenna to 2 × 2 MIMO transmission and demonstrate the effectiveness of channel capacity enhancement in an actual environment. The improvement factor is revealed to be +16.2% with place averaged value compared to sleeve antenna configuration.

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This paper proposes a channel capacity maximization method for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas with parasitic elements. Reactive terminations are connected to the parasitic elements, and the reactance values are determined to achieve stochastically high channel capacity for the environment targeted. This method treats the S-parameter and propagation channel of the antenna, including the parasitic elements, as a combined circuit. The idea of the ‘parasitic channel,’ which is observed at the parasitic antenna, is introduced to simplify the optimization procedure. This method can significantly reduce the number of necessary measurements of the channel for designing the antenna. As a design example, a bidirectional Yagi-Uda array, which has two driven antennas at both ends of the linear array, is measured in an indoor environment. The resulting design offers enhanced channel capacity mainly due to its improved signal-to-noise ratio compared to the antenna without the parasitic antennas.

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This paper presents a newly developed small-sized shaped beam base station antenna in order to reduce inter-sector interference for next generation high speed wireless data communication systems. The developed antenna realizes polarization diversity as a single small-sized antenna without decreasing the 3dB main beamwidth compared with the conventional antenna by applying a newly designed beam shaping method. Furthermore, side sub-reflectors are newly installed in the radome to reduce the antenna beam gain in the direction toward the edge region neighboring the other sectors of the horizontal antenna pattern. By adopting this type of reflector, the diameter of the radome can be minimized at 0.65λ, which is slightly longer than that of the conventional antenna. Both a computer simulation and a field measurement test based on an actual cellular network were conducted for the purpose of clarifying the validity of the shaped beam antenna. In the results, the CINR at the service area by the shaped beam antenna was 1dB and 3.5dB better than that of the conventional antenna at the median and 10% of CDF, respectively. The developed antenna will be expected to contribute to the enhancement of the quality of cellular radio systems in the future.

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An algorithm is formulated for reconstructing a dielectric cylinder with the use of the T-matrix and the singular value decomposition (SVD) and is discussed through numerical examples under noisy conditions. The algorithm consists of two stages. At the first stage the measured data of scattered waves is transformed into the T-matrix. At the second stage we reconstruct the cylinder from the T-matrix. The singular value decomposition is applied in order to separate the radiating and the nonradiating currents, and the radiating current is directly obtained from the T-matrix. The nonradiating current and the object are reconstructed by decreasing a residual error of the current in the least square approximation, where linear equations are solved repeatedly. Some techniques are used in order to reduce the calculation time and to reduce the effects of noise. Numerical examples show us that the presented approach is simple and numerically feasible, and enables us to reconstruct a large object in a short time.

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This paper attempts to analyze theoretically the propagation characteristics in the transverse section of upper body to support on-body wireless communications. The analytical estimation assumes that the human body is structured as a lossy-dielectric circular cylinder with infinite length that consists of the 2/3-muscle equivalent uniform tissue. Each scattering electric field formulation inside and outside of the cylinder is derived for scattering characteristics in the propagation environment including the human body when the source current has the vertical direction to the cylinder surface or the horizontal direction to the cylinder axis. In order to confirm the reliability of the formulation, total electric field distributions at 2.45GHz are compared with the results by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. In each current direction, general scattering characteristics and the influence on the total propagation are estimated. Furthermore, from scattering and total electric field intensities evaluated with the variations of operating frequency, radius of the human body, and distance between a source and the human body, propagation characteristics are investigated to assist in the design of a device for on-body propagation channel with the upper body.

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The conjugate gradient-fast multipole method (CG-FMM) is one of the powerful methods for analysis of large-scale electromagnetic problems. It is also known that CPU time and computer memory can be reduced by CG-FMM but such computational cost of CG-FMM depends on shape and electrical properties of an analysis model. In this paper, relation between the number of multipoles and number of segments in each group is derived from dimension of segment arrangement in four typical wiregrid models. Based on the relation and numerical results for these typical models, the CPU time per iteration and computer memory are quantitatively discussed. In addition, the number of iteration steps, which is related to condition number of impedance matrix and analysis model, is also considered from a physical point of view.

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A characteristic-based constrained interpolation profile (CIP) method for solving three-dimensional, time-dependent Maxwell's equations is successfully developed. It is utilized to solve one-dimensional wave equations in the formulation of the Maxwell's equations. Calculation procedure of the CIP method for three-dimensional scattering analysis is described in details. Update equations for boundary conditions of a perfectly conducting (PEC) interface and a dielectric interface are formulated and obtained in explicit forms. Numerical analyses of electromagnetic scatterings of PEC sphere, dielectric sphere and PEC cube are performed and the scattering coefficient is calculated and compared with the Mie's analytic results. As a result, the scattering coefficients show good agreement with the Mie's results, which demonstrates the validity of the CIP method and the formulated update equations. It is also shown that the phase of the scattering coefficients determined by the CIP method are slightly more accurate than that of the FDTD method.

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This paper proposes a novel metamaterial structure, which equivalently indicates negative permittivity, for the purpose of applying it to a near-field imaging and/or diagnostics of electromagnetic properties by using a surface plasmon in microwave frequency range. The proposed structure consists of a conducting wire lattice with conducting spheres embedded at the mid-point of the wire. It is shown that a spatial dispersion of the wire lattice can be reduced significantly by the sphere. It is also shown that this structure can successfully be applied to an excitation of the surface plasmon in the microwave frequency range by adequately cutting into a thin slab.

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The purpose of this study is to establish a whole-body averaged specific absorption rate (WB-SAR) estimation method using the power absorbed by humans; a cylindrical-external field scanning technique is used to measure the radiated RF (radio-frequency) power. This technique is adopted with the goal of simplifying the estimation of the exposure dosimetry of humans who have different postures and/or sizes. In this paper, to validate the proposed measurement method, we subject numerical human phantom models and cylindrical scanning conditions to FDTD analysis. We design a radiation system that uses a dielectric lens to achieve plane-wave irradiation of tested human phantoms in order to develop an experimental WB-SAR measurement system for UHF far-field exposure condition. In addition, we use a constructed SAR measurement system to confirm absorbed power estimations of simple geometrical phantoms and so estimate measurement error of the measurement system. Finally, we discuss the measurement results of WB-SARs for male adult and child human phantom models.

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A waveform of an ultra wideband impulse radio (UWB-IR) system can be extremely distorted through a channel even for free-space transmission because of antenna dispersion. This highly degrades the link budget performance. Therefore, the understand of antenna characteristics, which effects on waveform distortion, is necessary. This paper studies the waveform distortion due to antenna in free space transmission in UWB-IR system. The link budget is usually evaluated by using the Friis' transmission formula. However, it is not directly applicable to the UWB-IR transmission system. The link budget evaluation formula attended from conventional Friis' transmission formula that takes into account the transmitted waveform, its distortion due to the antennas, the channel and the correlation receiver is proposed. Since the antenna is significant pulse-shaping filters in UWB-IR system, the example kind of the log-periodic dipole antenna (LPDA) is experimentally examined, especially focused on the effect of the template waveforms.

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A one-input four-way power divider is developed for feeding circuit of a microstrip comb-line antenna. The four-way power divider is composed of two-stage tournament-configuration of three Y-junctions. To control the sidelobe level and beam width in radiation pattern of the array, the power dividing ratio is assigned for the four-way power divider. Required dividing ratio is designed by changing the line width to control the impedance. To take impedance matching at the connection parts of the Y-junctions, 1/4-wavelength impedance-transformers are applied to the divider and taper structure is supplied at discontinuities. Four-comb-line antennas are designed and fabricated at 76.5GHz. We evaluated sidelobe level and beam width by experiment to confirm the performance of the power divider.

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A new linearly tapered slot antenna (LTSA) with defected sides is proposed in this letter. Both sides are defected with half-dumbbell shape slots that may alter the surface current intensities on both sides. As the half-dumbbell size is increased, the 3-dB beamwidth of the proposed antenna is 4° and 6° lower in the E/H-plane, respectively, than these of the LTSA without defects. Accordingly, the measured gain is improved by up to 3.75dB and the first side lobe level is lowered by about −10.8dB and −5.8dB in the E/H-planes, respectively.

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In this letter, compact loop resonator type circular polarization (CP) antennas with a square ring and an X-shaped meander loop are presented. Both antennas are fed to a microstrip line with electromagnetic coupling. By adjusting the gap and length of a coupled microstrip line, the magnitude and phase conditions of two orthogonal modes for CP can be determined. The proposed antennas show good axial ratios and also good agreements between experimented and simulated results.

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The hybrid antenna consisted of cylindrical dielectric resonator and rectangular slot was implemented. The hybrid antenna resonated at two different frequencies. The lower resonant frequency was associated with the rectangular slot while the higher resonant frequency was associated with the cylindrical dielectric resonator. Parametric investigation was carried out using simulation software. The proposed hybrid antenna had good agreement between the simulation and measurement results. A 24% bandwidth (return loss < 10dB) of 2.30GHz, and a 18% bandwidth (return loss <10dB) of 5.46GHz was implemented successfully for application in ISM and UNII band.

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A new scheme to avoid null zone for HF-band RFID without expanding antenna size is proposed. At first, we demonstrate by FDTD simulation that the null zone occurs because of cancellation of magnetic fields over the loop surface. To prevent cancellation of magnetic fields, the loop antenna is split into four parts, which work as a planar array antenna. The outputs of antennas are gathered by using combining circuit. We have validated by FDTD simulation that the proposed scheme enlarges the worst received power by 13.1dB.

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A band diagram is fundamental for investigating the electromagnetic properties of periodic structures such as photonic and/or electromagnetic crystals and electromagnetic bandgap structures. In this paper, computer resources and the accuracy of the Finite Difference Frequency Domain and the Finite Difference Time Domain methods are studied. The periodic structure treated here consists of two-dimensional dielectric cylinders.

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This paper proposes a new Partial Transmit Sequence (PTS) method in conjunction with the concurrent algorithm for Space Time Block Code Multiple Input Multiple Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (STBC MIMO-OFDM) systems. The feature of proposed PTS method is that each cluster is divided into two parts and these two parts employ the different weighting factors to achieve the better Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) with keeping the same size of side information and almost the same size of computational complexity as that for the conventional concurrent PTS method.

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This article presents a unified analytical framework to evaluate the bit error probability (BEP) of M-QAM, R-QAM and M-PAM modulation schemes for different types of fading channels, modeled with Hoyt, Rice, Rayleigh, Nakagami and Log-normal distributions. The mathematical development is obtained for maximal-ratio combining multichannel reception and assumes independent fading paths. The new BEP expressions are written in terms of the integral of the moment generating funcion of the instantaneos signal-to-noise ratio. The advantage of this approach is that it can be applied to any type of fading, and the integrals, even though they do not provide exact expressions, can be numerically evaluated.

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We propose a scheme of MultiCast Routing and Wavelength Assignment (MC-RWA) to establish light-tree for dynamic multicast session for the Wavelength Division Multiplex (WDM) network by choosing the wavelength that leads to a reduction in blocking probabilities by using a parameter Δ. Δ is defined as the overall reduction of connectivity of the nodes in the network caused by a wavelength assignment process when using a particular wavelength, and we assign wavelength resources to the multicast session by choosing the Δ which leads to smallest reduction in connectivity. Through computer simulation, we show that the proposed scheme has lower blocking probabilities when compared with minimum cost scheme under the condition that wavelength conversion is not allowed.

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Platforms of hosting services are expected to provide a virtual private computing infrastructure with guaranteed levels of performance to support each reservation request sent by a client. To enhance the performance of the computing infrastructure in responding to reservation requests, the platforms are required to reserve, coordinate, and control globally distributed computing and network resources across multiple domains. This paper proposes Grid Network Service — Web Services Interface version 2 (GNS-WSI2). GNS-WSI2 is a resource-reservation messaging protocol that establishes a client-server relationship. A server is a kind of management system in the management plane, and it allocates available network resources within its own domain in response to each reservation request from a client. GNS-WSI2 has the ability to reserve network resources rapidly and reliably over multiple network domains. This paper also presents the results of feasibility tests on a transpacific testbed that validate GNS-WSI2 in terms of the scalable reservation of network resources over multiple network domains. In the tests, two computing infrastructures over multiple network domains are dynamically provided for scientific computing and remote-visualization applications. The applications are successfully executed on the provided infrastructures.

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The current interdomain routing protocol, BGP, is not resilient to a path failure due to its single-path and slowly-converging route calculation. This paper proposes a novel approach to improve the resilience of the interdomain communication by enabling a set of ASes to form an alliancefor themselves. The alliance members cooperatively discover a set of disjoint paths using not only the best routes advertised via BGP but also the ones unadvertised. Since such a set of disjoint paths are unlikely to share a link failure, a member AS can provide a pair of the other members with a transit to circumvent the failure. We evaluate how many disjoint paths we could discover from both advertised and hidden (unadvertised) routes by analyzing publicly available BGP route data. Our feasibility study indicates that an alliance of ASes can establish a set of disjoint paths between arbitrary pair of its alliance members with high probability to improve the resilience of interdomain routing among the members.

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Estimating the number of signals (NIS) is an important goal in array signal processing, such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. A common approach for solving this problem is to use an eigenvalue of the array covariance matrix and information criterion, such as the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and minimum description length (MDL). However they suffer serious degradation, when the incoming signals are coherent. To estimate the NIS of the coherent signals impinging on a uniform linear array (ULA), a method for estimating the number of signals without eigendecomposition (MENSE) is proposed. The accuracy of the NIS estimation performance of MENSE is superior to the other algorithms equipped with preprocessing such as the spatial smoothing preprocessing (SSP) and forward/backward spatial smoothing techniques (FBSS) to decorrelate the coherency of signals. Instead of using SSP or FBSS preprocessing, MENSE uses the Hankel correlation matrices. The Hankel correlation matrices can not only decorrelate the coherency of signals but also suppress the influence of noise. However, in severe conditions like low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) or a closely spaced signals impinging on a ULA, the NIS estimation metric of MENSE has some bias which causes estimation error. In this paper, we pay attention to the multiplicity defined by the ratio of the geometric mean to the arithmetic mean. Accordingly, we propose a new estimation metric that has less bias than that in MENSE. The Computer simulation results show that the proposed method is superior to MENSE in the above severe conditions.

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In this paper, we propose a genetic algorithm (GA) based equalization approach for direct sequence ultra-wideband (DS-UWB) wireless communication systems, where the GA is combined with a RAKE receiver to combat the inter-symbol interference (ISI) due to the frequency selective nature of UWB channels for high data rate transmission. The proposed GA based equalizer outperforms significantly the RAKE and the RAKE-minimum mean square error (MMSE) receivers according to results obtained from intensive simulation work. The RAKE-GA receiver also provides bit-error-rate (BER) performance very close to that of the optimal RAKE-maximum likelihood detection (MLD) approach, while offering a much lower computational complexity.

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In next-generation mobile communications, it is important to improve the throughput of the cell edge as well as that of the whole cell. Multi-link transmission from two adjacent BSs has been studied for improving the throughput at the cell edge in OFDM-based cellular systems, which are major candidates for next-generation mobile communication systems. In multi-link transmission, an MS at a cell edge receives signals from both adjacent BSs by orthogonally multiplexing those signals in the frequency domain. Therefore, the cell-edge MS can utilize the frequency and power resources of both adjacent BSs, which improves the cell-edge throughput. However, when the received timing difference between the signals from both BSs exceeds the maximum permissible value, adjacent-channel interference is caused by the collapse of the orthogonality. In this paper, to resolve this issue, we propose a novel timing-offset interference canceller. To clarify the performance of the proposed canceller, this paper evaluates its performance with respect to the residual interference power and the BER by computer simulation.

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In this paper, a joint blind synchronization and demodulation scheme is developed for ultra-wideband (UWB) impulse radio systems. Based on the prior knowledge of the direct-sequence (DS) spread codes, the proposed approach can achieve frame-level synchronization with the help of frame-rate samples. Taking advantage of the periodicity of the DS spread codes, the frame-level synchronization can be carried out even in one symbol interval. On the other hand, after timing acquisition, these frame-rate samples can be re-utilized also for demodulation. Thus the acquisition time and the implementation complexity are reduced considerably. The performance improvement can be justified by both theoretical analysis and simulation results, in terms of acquisition probability and bit error rate (BER).

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In this paper, joint water filling and maximal ratio transmission (joint WF-MRT) downlink transmit diversity for a single-carrier distributed antenna network (SC DAN) is proposed. The joint WF-MRT transmit weight allocates the transmit power in both transmit antenna dimension and frequency dimension, i.e., the power allocation is done both across frequencies based on WF theorem and across transmit antennas based on MRT strategy. The cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the channel capacity achievable by joint WF-MRT transmit diversity is evaluated by Monte-Carlo numerical computation method. The channel capacities achievable with joint WF-MRT, MRT, and WF transmit weight (WF transmit weight is done across transmit antennas and frequencies based on WF theorem) are compared. It is shown that the joint WF-MRT transmit weight provides the highest channel capacity among three transmit weights.

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In this paper, we study the performance of base station (BS) cooperation for downlink transmission. Based on a modified Wyner multicell model, an opportunistic intra cell scheduling scheme is proposed. Then, we derive a closed-form expression for the sum-rate capacity of the proposed scheme in the Rayleigh flat-fading channel. Also, we prove that the opportunistic scheme can be regarded as providing a downlink beamforming scheme to achieve a tighter lower bound for the downlink sum rate capacity. Numerical results confirm our theoretical analysis.

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Carrier frequency offset may distort the orthogonality of the subcarriers in OFDM systems and it must be estimated and compensated to maintain the system performance. A blind carrier frequency offset estimator based on the histogram of the received signal's phase is proposed in this letter. The proposed estimator can operate under additive white Gaussian noise and multipath channels without known training signal, redundant guard interval, and virtual carrier. Compared to subspace-based blind estimators, the proposed estimator can provide better mean-square-error performance.

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A previous study proposed a downlink scheduling of real time variable rate (RT-VR), non real time variable rate (NRT-VR), and best effort (BE) traffic forwarding classes [1] to support QoS of the WiMax network. However, the study did not consider scheduling extended real time variable rate (ERT-VR) service, which defines the additional requirement of jitter performance when compared with RT-VR service. This article studies the supplementing function in ERT-VR service to complete QoS scheduling of downlink traffic in the WiMax network. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme not only satisfies delay time, but also guarantees the jitter requirement of ERT-VR traffic.

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The asymptotic properties of node distribution and speed distribution in random direction model were analyzed, respectively, by the tools of geometric probability and palm calculus. The probability density function for node distribution in circular regions was obtained which indicated that mobile nodes tended to disperse as simulation advancing. The speed decay phenomenon was confirmed in this model. Moreover, the hypostasis of speed decay was proved to be the correlation between speed and duration within any movement period.

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This paper presents the forcible resonant characteristics of a cutoff cavity-backed slot radiator. It has a feed post and a parasitic post inserted parallel to the slot width, done by adding a single external reactance to the top or the bottom side of the parasitic post. The basic radiator characteristics for a perfect matching to a 50-Ω coaxial line due to the connecting position of the external reactance are discussed. Comparisons show that the bandwidth of the top side loading is narrower than the bottom side loading case. The theoretical analysis is verified by the measured return loss.

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A dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is located below a radiating patch of an planar inverted F antenna (PIFA) to achieve a compact hybrid antenna and a multiple band operation. Loop-type structures with PIFA shorting pins are used as feeds for both the DRA and the PIFA. The proposed antenna operates well in two frequency bands without perturbing the fundamental radiation characteristics of each operating radiation mode of the DRA and the PIFA. Its electromagnetic performance and the desirable practical size of the proposed hybrid antenna are attractive for small mobile communication devices.

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In this letter, a new design of a metamaterial-based microstrip antenna is presented using triangular slots embedded on the ground plane to enhance the impedance bandwidth. To improve the impedance bandwidth of the proposed antenna, two resonant mode frequencies are closely allocated using the slotted ground without changing the radiator element. The impedance bandwidth of VSWR < 2.5 is measured at 2.43GHz (37.6%) centered on 6.46GHz, from 5.24GHz to 7.67GHz in good agreements with the simulated results.

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This letter presents results showing improved field uniformity in a reverberation chamber using quadratic residue diffusers. The optimal occupying ratio of the diffusers on one side wall of the chamber is presented. A reverberation chamber is an alternative to the semi-anechoic chamber, which is widely used for the analysis and measurement of electromagnetic interference and immunity. To analyze the field characteristics, quadratic residue diffusers were designed for the 1-3GHz frequency band, and the FDTD method was used. At 1-3GHz, the standard deviation of the test volume in the reverberation chamber was investigated. The reverberation chamber had good field uniformity when quadratic residue diffusers occupy 37.5-50% of one side wall of the reverberation chamber; the field uniformity saturated at the diffuser occupancy rate of 75%.

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This paper presents a calibration scheme for delay mismatch between envelope and phase in the OFDM polar transmitter. An asynchronous delay detection method is proposed to avoid using a complicated signal processing algorithm or synchronous elements which need high clocking rates for detecting small delay mismatch. This scheme uses buffer delay chains to estimate the mismatch and then the estimated delay values are asynchronously stored in registers. It is verified that the proposed scheme well suites application to the OFDM polar transmitter through SPW, Matlab and HDL simulations. It achieves the margin of about 20dB at 20MHz offset, 10dB at 40MHz offset in terms of spectral limit specified in WLAN standard.

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Switch and stay combining (SSC) is an attractive diversity technique due to its low complexity and compatibility to resource-constrained wireless networks. This letter proposes a distributed SSC for partial relay selection networks in order to achieve spatial diversity as well as to improve spectral efficiency. Simulation results show that the performance loss (in terms of bit error probability) of the proposed networks relative to partial relay selection networks with selection combining is not substantial.

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We propose a time-frequency interleave (TFI) structure of single carrier (SC) frequency domain equalization (FDE) to combat spectral nulls of wireless channels. Permuted copies of block data are transmitted in the TFI-FDE, providing the same diversity order as maximal-ratio receiver combining. The spectral nulls are compensated by uncorrelated spectral components of the same channel. It shows 4dB diversity gains at BER of 10^-2 over an indoor channel. The TFI-FDE is computationally-efficient in combination with fast Fourier transform. This TFI-FDE fits SC systems with single antenna. It needs no channel state information at the transmitter.

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In this paper, we analyze the performance of the 2 × 1 Alamouti scheme suggested by Alamouti, composed of the transmit space-time code and the simple linear decoding processing, in perfectly time-varying and spatially correlated channels. We derive the closed-form probability density function (PDF) of output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and outage probability of the Alamouti scheme as a function of spatial correlation coefficient in the consideration of no correlation in time. We observe that the performance of the Alamouti scheme is severely degraded when the channels are time-varying and spatially correlated.

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This letter considers power-controlled transmission from directional antennas in mmWave wireless personal area network (WPAN) systems. The attributes of these systems are studied; these include the number of concurrent transmissions and the power consumption with different system parameters, such as the antenna's beamwidth and radiating efficiency. Numerical results are presented to show that the power controlled transmission enables more concurrent transmissions than the non-power controlled transmission. The results also show that the number of concurrent transmissions increases as the beamwidth and the path loss component become smaller and the antenna's radiating efficiency increases. In addition, the power controlled system generally uses less power than the non-power controlled transmission set up; the overall analysis is verified by simulation.

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In this letter, a dual-hop wireless communication network with opportunistic amplify and forward (O-AF) relay is investigated over independent and non-identically distributed Nakagami-m fading channels. Employing Maclaurin series expansion around zero to derive the approximate probability density function of the normalized instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the asymptotic symbol error rate (SER) and outage probability expressions are presented. Simulation results indicate that the derived expressions well match the results of Monte-Carlo simulations at medium and high SNR regions. By comparing the O-AF with all AF relaying analyzed previously, it can be concluded that the former has significantly better performance than the latter in many cases.

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