{"title":"Harmonic Suppression in In-line Parallel-Coupled Microstrip Bandpass Filter by Minkowski Fractals","authors":"S. Chatterjee, T. K. Das, B. Gupta","doi":"10.1109/MMS.2017.8497142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMS.2017.8497142","url":null,"abstract":"Present paper highlights an in-line third order parallel-coupled microstrip line Chebyshev bandpass filter at 2.5GHz with Minkowski fractals. An in-line configuration provides more than 62% of size reduction compared to conventional coupled-line filter, with a degradation of second harmonic passband. By employing fractals at the edges of each section of the coupled-lines, modal characteristic impedances are modulated to achieve phase velocity compensation, resulting around 42dB suppression of the unwanted second harmonic in the modified in-line structure having 65% of size reduction. Present design with a fractional bandwidth of 15% has been utilized for WLAN application.","PeriodicalId":152707,"journal":{"name":"2017 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128448916","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":"Outage Probability Performance Using Space Projection Algorithm in FD-MIMO Relay","authors":"K. M. Rahman, N. Hakem","doi":"10.1109/MMS.2017.8497151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMS.2017.8497151","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the performance of Full-Duplex (FD) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) relays in an indoor wireless communication system. The FD-MIMO system use Amplify-and-Forward (AF) approach to reduce interferences around relay and increase throughput capacity between both ends of the link. At the relay level, a major issue is to minimize the self-interference (SI) generated by a simultaneous receiving and transmitting of the same signal. To address SI interferences, we proposed a space projection algorithm (SPA) involving Null-space projection (NSP) and subspace projection (SP) algorithms. The simulation results reveal that the proposed SPA minimized the loop interferences and boosted up the link capacity.","PeriodicalId":152707,"journal":{"name":"2017 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127591997","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}
A. Rennane, Fateh Benmahmoud, A. Abdelnour, Newton Fonseca, D. Kaddour, R. Touhami, S. Tedjini
{"title":"Passive UHF RFID Bending and Absolute Force Strain Gauge Based Sensors","authors":"A. Rennane, Fateh Benmahmoud, A. Abdelnour, Newton Fonseca, D. Kaddour, R. Touhami, S. Tedjini","doi":"10.1109/MMS.2017.8497164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMS.2017.8497164","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel passive UHF RFID sensor configuration is presented. Configurations based on strain gauges are tested. The first configuration uses a flexible substrate to be suitable to measure the bending of a given surface and the second one uses a specific designed structure for measuring absolute force in a limited range. An energy harvesting block that can collect the RF power received from UHF RFID Reader is integrated in order to cover the extra energy supply demand. Realized measurements show a high level of accuracy and reliability of fabricated prototypes.","PeriodicalId":152707,"journal":{"name":"2017 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133789690","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}
G. Monti, M. D. De Paolis, L. Corchia, L. Tarricone
{"title":"Electromagnetic Compatibility Analysis of a WPT Link for Rechargeable Pacemakers","authors":"G. Monti, M. D. De Paolis, L. Corchia, L. Tarricone","doi":"10.1109/MMS.2017.8497076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMS.2017.8497076","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses a WPT (Wireless Power Transfer) link for recharging a pacemaker focusing on aspects related to the compatibility with safety regulations. The results achieved by full-wave simulations for the Specific Absorption Rate and the temperature rise in human tissues are reported and discussed.","PeriodicalId":152707,"journal":{"name":"2017 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132099116","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":"Differential lumped-element Wilkinson power divider for use in MMIC systems","authors":"K. Janisz, K. Wincza, S. Gruszczynski","doi":"10.1109/MMS.2017.8497147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMS.2017.8497147","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel design of the differential, lumped-element Wilkinson power divider. Design process, simulation results and measurements of the proof-of-concept 3-dB, 100 MHz SMD-type power divider have been presented. Furthermore, a chip type 3-dB, 2.4 GHz divider has been designed for fabrication on a GaAs substrate. Simulations and measurements results prove usability of the presented method.","PeriodicalId":152707,"journal":{"name":"2017 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)","volume":"328 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133174943","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":"Conception of a Dual-band Six-port Based Reflectometer","authors":"Nadia Chagtmi, N. Boulejfen, F. Ghannouchi","doi":"10.1109/MMS.2017.8497162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMS.2017.8497162","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a dual-band six-port based reflectometer designed and implemented using a six-port junction and a four-channel diode detector to measure the reflection coefficient of an unknown load. The proposed reflectometer has been implemented to operate at two frequencies of 1.5 GHz and 2.7 GHz. A linear calibration procedure using five standards has been used to identify the calibration matrix that characterizes the six-port reflectometer. This matrix is used then during measurement to compensate for the reflectometer imperfections and identify the reflection coefficient of the load under test. The experimental results showed that the proposed dual-band reflectometer provides a good accuracy in terms of measurement accuracy compared to the commercial N5230A PNA-L high performance Agilent Network Analyzer with a much lower implementation cost.","PeriodicalId":152707,"journal":{"name":"2017 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133873315","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 Wideband Fractal Antenna and Comparison of RF Rectifiers for Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting","authors":"H. Ozdemir, T. Nesimoglu","doi":"10.1109/MMS.2017.8497158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMS.2017.8497158","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a wideband fractal antenna and compares two efficient rectifier topologies suitable for 2.45 GHz band. The combined fractal antenna and the rectifiers may be used for ambient RF energy harvesting from wireless LAN/Wi-Fi. The proposed fractal antenna covers the most frequently encountered frequency bands which are located around 1800 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.4 GHz and 2.45 GHz corresponding to standards like GSM/DCS, UMTS, ISM and WLAN respectively. The return loss of the proposed antenna is below −10 dB and its gain is 4 dBi between 2.40–2.47 GHz. Two different Greinacher voltage tripler rectifier circuits were designed to compare the RF to DC conversion efficiency and power handling capability of the rectifying circuit structures. Up to 60% power efficiency was achieved with the proposed rectifiers at 2.45 GHz.","PeriodicalId":152707,"journal":{"name":"2017 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132742330","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}
K. Hamze, E. De Ledinghen, D. Pasquet, P. Descamps
{"title":"Evaluation of the Error due to Bended CPW Lines used in a Calibration Process","authors":"K. Hamze, E. De Ledinghen, D. Pasquet, P. Descamps","doi":"10.1109/MMS.2017.8497066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMS.2017.8497066","url":null,"abstract":"A bended and straight coplanar waveguides are modeled by using HFSS 3D electromagnetic software. The behavior of bend CPW is described by matrix calculations in order to show the effect of the parasitic even mode on the propagation of a signal. A comparison is done in this article with several works done before to show that there is a significant error when using bended CPW standard instead of straight ones in calibration.","PeriodicalId":152707,"journal":{"name":"2017 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116587217","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":"Outage Probability of Full Duplex Relay in OLOS Underground Mine Environments","authors":"K. M. Rahman, N. Hakem","doi":"10.1109/MMS.2017.8497166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMS.2017.8497166","url":null,"abstract":"Expanding the coverage of network with different techniques is necessity and demand of today’s life. As the population increases the demand for more solutions to give more capacity and to reach everyone on the whole world with network increases. This paper considers the design of dual-hop full-duplex (FD) Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Relay for workers in the underground mine tunnel area, with an obstructed line of sight OLOS conditions, where the relay is equipped with two antennas, while the source and destination are armed with a single antenna. This paper aims to investigate the outage probability performance when the communication channel is obstructed by a vehicle in a mine tunnel. In this case, the radio signal is obstructed, and no communication is possible, we proposed an investigative relay, installed around that vehicle, with scheme Zero-Forcing Beam-Forming (ZFBF) to avoid obstruction and enable communication again. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme can efficiently minimize the outage probability.","PeriodicalId":152707,"journal":{"name":"2017 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115791180","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":"Efficient Energy and Delay Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)","authors":"M. Rubel, N. Kandil, N. Hakem","doi":"10.1109/MMS.2017.8497074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMS.2017.8497074","url":null,"abstract":"Energy efficiency is considered as the core issue in the design of WSN. However, in many application network delay is important especially in case of critical real-time applications. For such applications, the system should be time responsive. Clustering is one technique that is used very effectively to achieve scaling up and power saving in WSNs. However, its main drawback is dealing with network delay. In this work, we have proposed a clustering scheme which able to meet both delay and energy constraints. It allows data transmission from sensor nodes to the base station (BS) in reasonable delay and also ensure energy efficiency.","PeriodicalId":152707,"journal":{"name":"2017 Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126937506","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}