Beam steering using the active element pattern of antenna array

Abdul Malek, Norun Farihah and Khalifa, Othman Omran and Zainal Abidin, Zuhairiah and Mohamad, Sarah Yasmin and Abdul Rahman, Nur Aqilah (2018) Beam steering using the active element pattern of antenna array. TELKOMNIKA: Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control, 16 (4). pp. 1542-1550. ISSN 1693-6930

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Abstract

An antenna array is a set of a combination of two or more antennas in order to achieve improved performance over a single antenna. This paper investigates the beam steering technique using the active element pattern of dipole antenna array. The radiation pattern of the array can be obtain by using the active element pattern method multiplies with the array factor. The active element pattern is crucial as the mutual coupling effect is considered, and it will lead to an accurate radiation pattern, especially in determining direction of arrival (DoA) of a signal. A conventional method such as the pattern multiplication method ignores the coupling effect which is essential especially for closely spaced antenna arrays. The comparison between both techniques has been performed for better performance. It is observed that the active element pattern influenced the radiation pattern of antenna arrays, especially at the side lobe level. Then, the beam of the 3x3 dipole antenna array has been steered to an angle of 60° using three techniques; Uniform, Chebyshev and Binomial distribution. All of these are accomplished using CST and Matlab software

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	5245/64782
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Active element pattern (AEP); Dipole antenna array; Beam steering; Pattern multiplication; Edge effect
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Engineering > Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Depositing User:	Prof. Dr Othman O. Khalifa
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2018 12:38
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2018 12:55
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/65731

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