Characterization of Performance of a Mobile MIMO Antenna in Free Space

Abstract

This letter presents an antenna design method for a dual antenna with high isolation for mobile stations (MSs) and includes a verification method for improving the correlation performance of an MS that uses a proposed multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna by using MIMO over-the-air (OTA) channel models. The large-scale parameters for the MIMO OTA channel models are important because they determine the fixed geometrical parameters to be used for channel impulse response realization. The correlation performance of an MS has a strong relation to the cross-polarization discrimination (XPD) of the second branch antenna both numerically and experimentally. This study applies modern technology to implement MIMO antenna switch high isolation by selecting Band 5 to have low-frequency fabricated antenna samples that have several XPD values, thereby comparing their characteristics.