Capacity of echelon, H-shaped, V-shaped and printed dipole arrays in MIMO system

Abstract

This paper presents the simulated capacity results that could be achieved when echelon, H-shaped, V -shaped free standing dipoles and printed dipole arrays are used in the MIMO systems. As the configurations of interest, in this paper, have dipoles oriented in different directions, the channel model for multi-polarized antennas is used in the simulations. The polarization change at every scatterer is included using a dyad. The performances of arrays are evaluated using capacity as the metric. The mutual coupling between the dipoles of different orientations is also included to make simulation more realistic. Here we used Method of Moment (MOM) solution for the printed dipole mutual coupling impedance calculation.