Multi-Band Omnidirectional Antenna With Hexagonal Prism Shape for Mimo Applications

Abstract

Abstract-A multi-band antenna with omnidirectional radiation performance is proposed, which consists of 9 elements to form the structure of hexagonal prism. According to the placement rule, the antenna elements can be divided into two groups, one of which is placed in parallel on spaced three surfaces of the prism and the other placed vertically on the remaining spaced three faces of the prism. Each parallel element consists of two coplanar microstrip radiating patches which are nested within each other for miniaturization. Two parallel microstrips connected by a grounded disc with shorting pin are placed between the two patches to optimize the isolations. Each vertical element consists of two improved dipoles with four arms and a BALUN located at the back of the substrate plate which constitutes the quasi-Yagi structure. The resonant frequencies of the proposed prismatic antenna are 3.45 GHz, 4.9 GHz, 5.8 GHz and 15.2 GHz which can be used for low frequency bands of the fifth generation (5G) wireless communications and wireless local area networks (WLAN) as well as satellite communication applications.

Design of 28 GHZ Microstrip Mimo Antennas for Future 5g Applications

“…The 5G is going on and expected to be initiated by 2020 to provide extremely high data rate for multimedia applications and internet of things (IoT) (Wang et al, 2017). The 5G system requires bigger system capacity, wider bandwidth, and higher frequency (Chen et al, 2017).…”

“…There are two main directions of the development for 5G technologies: millimeter wave (mm) and MIMO (Tang et al, 2017). The MIMO with a large number of base station antennas on the transmitting and receiving ends can maximize the channel capacity for delivering high data (Wang et al, 2017).…”