{"title":"Small size dual band monopole antenna of smart watch for cellular communications","authors":"Yuki Tasaka, H. Iwasaki","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738106","url":null,"abstract":"We present the small size curved dual band antenna for the smart watch application. The proposed small size dual band antenna by integrating on the smart watch belt can cover the cellular dual band of 850 MHz and 2GHz. VSWR less than 2 was obtained in the simulated results.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"245 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124286071","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}
Z. Tengah, M. Ali, N. A. Abd Rahman, I. P. Ibrahim, N. E. Abd Rashid, Y. Yamada
{"title":"Achievement of a bifurcated beam by a bend array configuration","authors":"Z. Tengah, M. Ali, N. A. Abd Rahman, I. P. Ibrahim, N. E. Abd Rashid, Y. Yamada","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738137","url":null,"abstract":"For the next generation (5G) mobile base station antennas, authors are developing a cylindrical lens antenna featuring a simple configuration compared to the present array antenna configuration. In order to achieve a cylindrical lens antenna, feed element should produce a bifurcated beam radiation. In this paper, the bifurcated beam is conformed by a bend array configuration. Relations of array element number and objective beam shape are investigated.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128247496","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":"Accurate feed position designing for Malaysia beam coverage","authors":"N. F. Fauzi, M. Ali, N. A. Abd Rahman, Y. Yamada","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738107","url":null,"abstract":"For satellite communication, precise Malaysia coverage is requesting. In this paper, multi beam coverage is studied. In order to arrange multi beams at exact positions, exact feed position are determined through focal region ray tracings. Then, a multi beam reflector antenna is designed and beam allocations are examined. Adequateness of feed position determination is ensured by exact beam position achievement.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128300502","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}
S. Hamid, M. Ali, N. A. Abd Rahman, I. Pasya, Y. Yamada, N. Michishita
{"title":"Accuracy estimations of a negative refractive index cylindrical lens antenna designing","authors":"S. Hamid, M. Ali, N. A. Abd Rahman, I. Pasya, Y. Yamada, N. Michishita","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738108","url":null,"abstract":"In order to conform mobile base station antenna simply for the next generation mobile system (5G), a cylindrical lens antenna is developing. For the lens material, negative refractive index is used so as to reduce lens thickness. In this paper, relations of lens parameters and lens shapes are investigated. Design parameters for achieving practical thin lens shapes are clarified. Moreover, lens shaping accuracies are investigated through checking the refractive angles or ray paths on lens surfaces. All refractive angle results agree very well with the theoretical value. Adequateness of lens shaping results is ensured.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128754558","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":"Stepped-FM UWB sensor with multiple step frequencies","authors":"H. Koizumi, A. Kajiwara","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738138","url":null,"abstract":"UWB sensor has recently attracted considerable attention for various consumer applications such as home security and vital-sign monitoring because it has anti-fading capability and the high range resolution. Especially stepped-FM UWB sensor does not need high speed processors unlike UWB-IR. A high range resolution, however, the maximum detectable range should be limited depending on the step frequency bandwidth. In this paper, the use of multiple step frequencies scheme is suggested to meet the requirement for higher range-resolution and increased maximum detectable range.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127351944","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 extremely wideband tapered balun for application in tightly coupled arrays","authors":"Alpha O. Bah, P. Qin, Y. Guo","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738146","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of a single layer, compact, tapered balun with a >20:1 bandwidth and less than λ/17 in length at the lowest frequency of operation. The balun operates from 0.7GHz to over 15GHz. It can provide both impedance transformation as well as a balanced feed for tightly coupled arrays. Its performance is compared with that of a full-length balun operating over the same frequency band. There is a high degree of agreement between the two baluns.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124882341","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":"Directional antennas for point-to-multipoint millimetre wave communications","authors":"J. Zhang, S. Hay, Y. Guo","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738157","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the feasibility and potential performance of applying an antenna array of directional elements such as horn antennas for mmWave point-to-multipoint communications. We propose a conceptual design of the array, and review options for antenna elements and mechanical steering devices. We then estimate the achievable performance with respect to link data rate and distance, and show that pointing to users exactly does not always achieve system capacity, but the gap is typically small. We also provide comparison for two types of multiple access schemes.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"378 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116055879","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":"Biological information sensing using an autoregressive moving average model","authors":"Yuta Uomoto, A. Kajiwara","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738143","url":null,"abstract":"Health-care support at home and care facilities is a very important issue in many developed countries because of the arrival of increasingly aging society. Heart rate is one of very important vital signs which indicate daily health state of a person. However, the heart rate is difficult to be estimated because the heart rate signals are weak much less than breathing signal. This paper suggests a heart rate estimation system employing Autoregressive moving average model. which is robust to the body movement based on Autoregressive moving average model performs noise reduction with wavelet thresholding to signal by Stepped-FM UWB sensor.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"94 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129943359","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":"Modelling of the vertical radio refractivity near Arabian Sea","authors":"S. Najib, R. Mehreen, N. Mufti","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738160","url":null,"abstract":"Properties of the propagation medium are of crucial importance in modelling the radio communication path. The refractivity of atmosphere decreases with ascending height; enabling beyond-horizon radio communication. Due to different climates in various regions around the globe, no universal equation can be formulated for calculation of atmospheric refractivity at varying altitudes. This paper presents a series of equations for calculation of annual and seasonal atmospheric refractivities, for Karachi city of Pakistan. The equations compute the refractivity at a given height Nh with reference to the ground or surface refractivity Ns. The equations are derived from one year recorded atmospheric data i.e. 2010 to 2011 and are in the general form of Nh=Nse-k, where k is the derived factor and accounts for the heights variations. This work is vital for scenarios when local meteorological data is not available for vertical profiling of atmosphere.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126370824","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":"Design of a helical antenna array and the compensation technique for its boresight error of radiation patterns","authors":"Chi-Fang Huang, Bao-Cyuan Peng","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738129","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a method of compensating the boresight error which may be caused in a realized helical antenna. This technique is also applied in the present helical antenna array design in which three helical antenna elements are constructed and the boresight error is almost zero. Both of simulated and measured results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"7 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130194365","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}