Diversity Gain Influenced by Polarization and Spatial Diversity Techniques in Ultrawideband

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 3; pp. 281 - 286
• Main Authors: Koohestani, Mohsen, Hussain, Ahmed, Moreira, Antonio A., Skrivervik, Anja K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2015; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: antenna diversity; Antenna measurements; communication channels; Diversity gain; Electromagnetism; Engineering Sciences; ghz; indoor channel; Polarization; polarization and spatial; reverberation chamber; Reverberation chambers; Spatial analysis; Ultra wideband technology; Ultrawideband; UWB diversity antenna; polarization and spatial; Diversity gain; reverberation chamber; UWB diversity antenna
• ISSN: 2169-3536; 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2421505

This paper presents an experimental investigation of diversity gain influenced by polarization and spatial diversity techniques in ultrawideband (UWB) radio technology. To this aim, two different coplanar-fed UWB diversity antennas having the same size and employing identical monopoles were taken and both effective and apparent diversity gain were measured in a reverberation chamber. To extract the diversity gain, three commonly used approaches to combine diversity (i.e., selection, equal gain, and maximal ratio) have been considered. Results showed that >1 dB (~ 26 %) improvement in diversity gain is obtained over most of the considered band for polarization diversity case as compared with spatial case, showing the usefulness of polarization diversity for future UWB diversity applications.