{"title":"Multiple signal classification algorithm compensated by Extended Kalman Particle Filtering for Wi-Fi through wall multi-target tracking","authors":"K. E. Ahmed, Kareem M. Attiah, A. Eltrass","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738120","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a multiple-target tracking problem for a Wi-Fi through wall system is formulated and a new Direction Of Arrival (DOA) angle estimation technique is investigated to solve the tracking problem in the presence of clutter. The DOA estimation from objects behind walls is investigated utilizing the MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm compensated by Extended Kalman Particle Filtering (EKPF) technique for the first time. Simulation results show that the stand-alone MUSIC algorithm fails to identify two distinct objects having close DOAs and fails to track targets when they are moving close to each other. The results also reveal that the EKPF algorithm in conjunction with MIMO nulling technique correctly identifies close and overshadowed moving objects and improves the tracking success rate.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"60 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":"124688867","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":"Antenna gain response in the out-of-band region for unwanted emissions of AAS/massive MIMO","authors":"E. Pucci, F. Ghasemzadeh, L. Rexberg","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738113","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an initial study of antenna array response over a large frequency range in the out-of-band region which is needed to define the unwanted emissions requirements for the emerging Advanced Antenna Systems (AAS) and massive MIMO.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"13 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":"125955881","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":"Analysis on element shape geometries to enhance reflection coefficient and gain of reflectarray antenna","authors":"S. H. Yusop, N. Misran, M. F. Mansor, M. Abu","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738155","url":null,"abstract":"An analysis on element shape geometry is presented in this paper to enhance the reflectarray element bandwidth, to produce a more reliable phase distribution over the reflectarray antenna aperture and to have a good reflection element performance. The shape analysis consists of circular patch element, circular ring element and circular square ring element. The reflection coefficient parameter focuses on phase range, phase slope, bandwidth and return loss performance for each analysis and presented in this paper. It is shown that the proper selection of element shape geometry will significantly affects the reflection coefficient of reflectarray element and the antenna gain performances.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"6 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":"128695718","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":"Resonant structures and applications to mobile handset antennas","authors":"H. Wang, H. Xu","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738114","url":null,"abstract":"Resonant structures including stubs, slots, loops and combination of these basic resonant structures have been reviewed. A very compact resonant structure has been proposed and examined for mobile antenna designs to demonstrate the effectiveness of improving mobile handset antennas' isolation, radiation efficiency and pattern diversity.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"34 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":"115951736","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":"Comparison of UWB chipless tags on flexible substrates fabricated using either aluminum, copper or silver","authors":"Marvin Barahona, Diego Betancourt, F. Ellinger","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738123","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, metals like aluminum, copper and silver are used to elaborate ultra-wide band (UWB) chipless radio frequency identification (RFID) tags either on bond paper or polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. Up to 3 different UWB chipless tags designs with an amount of resonators ranging from 3 to 4 and a conductive strip width of 1 mm are fabricated. The tags are measured, its operation validated, and the performance comparisons between different fabrications are provided when available. The magnitudes of the radar cross section (RCS) calculated from the measurements of the scattering parameters, show that no major performance degradation is obtained for same tag designs fabricated with different metals and same substrate. According to market prices, replacing silver by copper a raw material cost reduction of at least 96% is expected, and at least 65% cost reduction replacing copper by aluminum.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"92 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":"122505049","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":"Investigation of UHF power flow in the vicinity of a steel I-beam for optimization of its health monitoring using wireless sensor integrated RFID tag antenna system","authors":"D. Jayawardana, S. Kharkovsky, R. Liyanapathirana","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738140","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the results of investigation of ultrahigh frequency power density in the vicinity of a steel I-beam using radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna system are presented. Simulation results show that the I-beam has different influence upon the amount power of incident on a tag antenna on its different locations along the beam. Furthermore, they show that suitably designed tag antennas can increase the power density in their locations in the inner surface of the I-beam. The measurement and simulation results are in good agreement. These findings have important implications for infrastructure health monitoring of complex-shaped structures using passive or semi-passive RFID-based sensory systems.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"108 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":"124143185","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":"Equivalent two-port for receiver noise figure of connected array antennas with constrained beamforming","authors":"S. Hay","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738171","url":null,"abstract":"We analyse signal and noise in receiving connected array antennas with equal low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) and constrained beamforming. An equivalent two-port circuit is derived for the receiver noise figure. Compared to the actual LNAs, the equivalent IAA is shown to have the same noise-match admittance but generally larger minimum noise figure and coefficient of source mismatch. The increased parameters are shown to be Lange constants, invariant under lossless transformations at the inputs of the actual IAAs. The increase in the l.ange constants is found to be closely determined by the power in the orthogonal response of the array when excited by a source aligned with the vector of beamforming coefficients. The representation provides a basis for comparing the performance of various array designs with differential beamforming or other beamforming eonstraints.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"20 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":"121490013","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":"Hybrid tunable wideband single feed antenna element for smartphones supporting carrier aggregation","authors":"S. Stanev, A. Tatomirescu","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738179","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a single feed antenna with a dual branch matching circuit combined with a 3dB microstrip power divider to support the carrier aggregation in LTE advanced mobile handsets. By the use of the matching circuits, an independent and versatile broadband antenna is achieved. Hence, the simulated total efficiency is between 2.3 dB to 1.5 dB at the frequency band 690-960 MHz, and 2.1 dB to 0.2 dB at 1700-2700 MHz.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"36 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":"132268976","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":"Energy Efficiency and Spectrum Efficiency trade-off over Optimal Relay Location in bidirectional relay networks","authors":"M. Khalil, S. Berber, K. Sowerby","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738182","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new method combines Optimal Relay Location (ORL), Energy Efficiency (EE) and Spectrum Efficiency (SE) in a bidirectional relay networks. The proposal aims to minimize power consumption with lower data rate loss. For this work, a flat fading channel is considered for exchanging signals between two wireless users separated by a specified distance. This distance is splitted by a set of bidirectional Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay nodes that allow to amplify the input signal without any further processing. The locations of these relays are optimized first and the trade-off expression between EE and SE is then derived. All analytical expressions (i.e., optimal relay location and trade-off EE SE ) are corroborated by the simulation.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"144 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":"133240979","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":"Investigations into the occurrence of evaporation ducts within the English Channel","authors":"N. Mufti, D. Siddle","doi":"10.1109/APWC.2016.7738159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APWC.2016.7738159","url":null,"abstract":"Evaporation ducts are a particular type of atmospheric duct that predominantly exist over large sections of water. These ducts can cause anomalous propagation of radio signals. The most popular method of evaluating the height or strength of evaporation duct is the Paulus Jeske Method. This research provides analysis of annual, seasonal, monthly, daily and hourly trends of occurrence of evaporation ducts in English Channel. It is believed that such extensive insight into these ducts has not been provided before. The annual mean duct height is 7.3m. The seasonal trend shows higher values in autumn and lower in summer. Further analysis shows that occurrence of maxima is possible at any time of the year. Also, there are indications of enhancements in received signal levels due to the occurrence of evaporation ducts, despite the fact that dominant propagation phenomenon was diffraction. The findings of this study improve the understanding of over-sea propagation.","PeriodicalId":143796,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC)","volume":"7 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":"127758911","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}