{"title":"Driving-signal optimization for LDMOS-SOI class E power amplifier efficiency enhancement","authors":"L. A. Montes, M. Villegas, G. Baudoin","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207257","url":null,"abstract":"A class E power amplifier operating at 3.7 GHz — one of the IEEE802.16e operating frequencies — has been simulated using a LDMOS SOI BSIM3SOI model. Various driving signal waveforms were tested in order to determine which one leads to best class E performances. 87% of drain efficiency and 74%of Power Added Efficiency (PAE) with gain of 8.3 dB was obtained providing a clipped sinus driving signal to the PA, from the best of our knowledge, this is the highest PAE obtained at this frequency using LDMOS transistor.","PeriodicalId":132141,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121912738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ó. Menéndez, P. de Paco, M. Ramirez, J. Verdú, E. Corrales
{"title":"Design, fabrication and measurement of a GPS-Galileo dual-passband filter","authors":"Ó. Menéndez, P. de Paco, M. Ramirez, J. Verdú, E. Corrales","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207302","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design, fabrication and measurement of a GPS-Galileo dual-passband filter. The applied synthesis methodology is based on a frequency transformation of the Chebyshev low-pass prototype, and unlike most of conventional synthesis methodologies allows us to design dual-passband filters as classical coupled-resonator filters. The filter is designed and fabricated in microstrip technology which offers a very cost effective device with reduced size and weight. The measured insertion loss is about 2 dB in the lower band and 3.5 dB in the higher band. Lower insertion loss is possible using resonators with higher unloaded quality factor, for example cavity resonators, but on the other hand this type of resonators presents much higher cost, size and weight.","PeriodicalId":132141,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132445014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On-chip S11 signal detection circuit","authors":"Ming‐Che Lee, W. Eisenstadt","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207238","url":null,"abstract":"As the RF era is ubiquitous nowadays, scattering parameters play an essential role in the modeling and verification of a variety of devices, chips, packages and transmission lines. To reduce the excessive cost in production chip testing with vector network analyzers (VNA), this paper proposes a simple system, utilizing only two lumped directional couplers (DC) and one power divider (DIV), that enables the measurement of the S11 of the device-under-test (DUT) using power and phase detectors. The proposed system is fabricated in the 0.18-um IBM 7RF process with 1.60 mm width and 1.40 mm length die dimensions including the pads. Power and phase detectors can be cascaded in the system to increase the level of integration. The three-port system has a targeted operating frequency of about 10 GHz when all the devices are correctly tuned. The measurement results show the expected behavior at the targeted frequency but inaccuracy occurs away from this frequency. To extend the working frequency band, three types of calibration methods are proposed and verified through simulation. In addition, ad-hoc production testing can still work with this device by using the simple mapping, derived from comparing a measured golden DUT behavior to its pre-characterized behavior.","PeriodicalId":132141,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125708161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fault tolerant location management for MNANET","authors":"K. Khazaei, S. Mohammadi, A. Momeni","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207305","url":null,"abstract":"In an Ad-hoc network, mobile nodes disconnected intermittently. One of the biggest challenges in such network is design of routing protocols that tolerate the nodes disconnection. In this paper, we present a novel schema to perform fault tolerant location management named FTLM. With location management scheme, each source node in the network trusts a small subset of nodes, namely its location servers, and updates them with its new geographic location. Fault tolerance in our approach achieved by redundancy in number of location servers that store node's positions. Same the Octopus[1] we employ synchronized aggregation technique to decreasing location management overhead. In this technique the location of many nodes updated at many other nodes with only a single packet. Simulation results show that FTLM is more scalable than Octopus and some other location management methods, moreover it is highly fault tolerant in failure prone environments.","PeriodicalId":132141,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference","volume":"262 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115830546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges for Quality of Service (QoS) in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs)","authors":"M. Karimi, Deng Pan","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207262","url":null,"abstract":"Next generation of wireless communication systems are engineered to service independent mobile users. These independent mobile users (nodes) are connected by wireless links build a Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET). The nodes in this system work together only based on mutual agreement without knowing about the network topology around themselves. Maintaining appropriate Quality of Service (QoS) for these networks, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) is a complex task because of the dynamic behavior of the network topology. Moreover, the size of the ad-hoc network is related to the QoS of the network. In addition, Mobile ad-hoc networks have a significant role in the future operation of wireless communication systems. Consequently, these networks should be able to provide the required QoS for the users. In this paper we discuss and analyze the dynamic nature of MANETs, and special attention is paid on fundamental problems and issues that occur when trying to provide QoS in this network environment.","PeriodicalId":132141,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference","volume":"512 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116562713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An adaptive fuzzy logic based vertical handoff decision algorithm for wireless heterogeneous networks","authors":"C. Çeken, H. Arslan","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207312","url":null,"abstract":"Handoff decision making is one of the most challenging issues in wireless heterogeneous networks designs since there are many parameters which have to be considered when triggering handoff and choosing the best candidate access point. Various parameters such as data rate, monetary cost, remaining battery, mobile speed, etc., must be exploited in handoff process of wireless overlapped networks along with the RSSI information which is already utilized widely in traditional networks. Beside these parameters, an effective handoff decision algorithm must be developed to combine and process them as well. In this study, an adaptive fuzzy logic based handoff decision algorithm is introduced for wireless heterogeneous networks. The parameters data rate, monetary cost, RSSI, and mobile speed are considered as inputs of the proposed fuzzy based system. According to these parameters, an output value, which varies between one and ten, is produced. This output describes the candidacy level of the available access points in the vicinity of smart terminal and is utilized in the access point selection algorithm. This algorithm decides whether a handoff is necessary or not, by using the handoff resolution value. The results show that, compared to the traditional RSSI based algorithms the performance is significantly enhanced for both user and network by the method proposed.","PeriodicalId":132141,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122649490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structured tone mitigation in 3rd and 4th order MASH Delta-Sigma Modulators-comparative study","authors":"A. Telli, I. Kale","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207242","url":null,"abstract":"A Delta-Sigma Modulator (DSM) can be thought as a nonlinear chaotic system that may exhibit tonal behaviour in its output spectrum. These tones are sometimes referred to as spurs and they are undesirable. To provide for the mitigation of structured tones, application of dithering, using chaotic modulators, loading irrational initial conditions and maintaining controllable maximum sequence lengths are commonly used and advised methods primarily in Multi-stAge noise SHaping (MASH) DSMs. Higher order MASH-DSMs are less problematic and are commonly used in many high speed and low noise frequency synthesiser circuits. As MASH is composed of cascaded first order digital DSM stages, it is unconditionally stable. In this paper, the tone mitigation techniques for MASH 1-1-1 and MASH 1-1-1-1 modulators are compared and their noise performances presented.","PeriodicalId":132141,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122674032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconfigurable and cost-effective FET mixer","authors":"U. Rohde, A. Poddar","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207268","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a reconfigurable resistive passive FET mixer co-designed with a reconfigurable VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) that acts as a LO (local oscillator), can operate with low noise figure, and high dynamic range without the need of external BALUN (balance-to-unbalance) network. The typical measured input intercept points (IIP3) and conversion loss is 38dBm and 8.5dB with the LO power typically 15dBm for the frequency bands (RF: 700–2300MHz, LO: 650–2100MHz, IF: 50–200MHz).","PeriodicalId":132141,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference","volume":"511 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132284758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multilayer Jerusalem Cross Frequency Selective Surface","authors":"S. Melais, T. Weller","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207235","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a previously proposed configuration of a Jerusalem Cross Frequency Selective Surface (JC-FSS) is optimized for operation in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The new feature introduced in this paper is the addition of superstrate layer on top of the FSS. In practice the added layer accounts for the substrate of an antenna mounted above the FSS. In this second layer is where the TE and TM propagating waves would impinge into the structure. The simulation results show a frequency stability of up to 70° for both TE and TM polarized waves at 2.45 GHz. In addition the band gap for the proposed JC-FSS covers the full ISM band (2.38–2.5GHz, 4.5%). The fabricated structure shows adequate 180° phase shift in comparison with a metal sheet, resonating at 2.47 GHz with a band gap of 2.5%.","PeriodicalId":132141,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121064040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Propagation modeling — a CSP approach","authors":"N. Sah, Trilok Chand, D. Bagai","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2009.5207316","url":null,"abstract":"Radio wave propagation models are extremely important in radio network planning as well as in interference planning, for the frequency range between 500 MHz and 5 GHz. This is because of the fact that an accurate propagation model enables efficient prediction of the coverage area of a cell and efficient resource reallocation in the form of better coverage prediction at the desired area. A certain model is usually applicable to limited distances and other parameter values. The simplest approach to the prediction of the field strength in urban scenarios is empirical models. The empirical models are very fast but they are not very accurate. Each of these models can also be viewed as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP).","PeriodicalId":132141,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE 10th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126104143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}