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A Novel Smart UWB Antenna Array Design by PSO

Min-Hui Ho,

Dr. Min-Hui Ho

Department of Electrical Engineering

Tamkang University

Taiwan, R.O.C.

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Shu-Han Liao,

Dr. Shu-Han Liao

Department of Electrical Engineering

Tamkang University

Taiwan, R.O.C.

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Chien-Ching Chiu

Dr. Chien-Ching Chiu

Department of Electrical Engineering

Tamkang University

Taiwan

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Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 15, 103-115, 2010

doi:10.2528/PIERC10051106 | Google Scholar

Abstract

In this paper, a new ultra wideband circular antenna array (UCAA) combining particle swarm optimizer (PSO) to minimize the bit error rate (BER) is proposed. The ultra wideband (UWB) impulse responses of the indoor channel for any transmitter-receiver location are computed by applying shooting and bouncing ray/image (SBR/Image) techniques, inverse fast Fourier transform and Hermitian processing. By using the impulse response of multipath channel, the BER performance of the binary pulse amplitude modulation (B-PAM) impulse radio (IR) UWB system can be calculated. Based on the topography of the circular antenna array, and the BER formula, the array pattern synthesis problem can be reformulated into an optimization problem and solved by the PSO. The novelties of our approach is not only choosing BER as the object function instead of sidelobe level of the antenna pattern, but also consider the antenna feed length effect of each array element. The strong point of the PSO is that it can find out the solution even if the performance index cannot be formulated by simple equations. Simulation results show that the synthesized antenna array pattern is effective to focus maximum gain to the LOS path which scales as the number of array elements. In other words, the receiver can increase the received signal energy to noise ratio. The synthesized array pattern also can mitigate severe multipath fading in complex propagation environment. As a result, the BER can be reduced substantially in indoor UWB communication system.

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Min-Hui Ho, Shu-Han Liao, and Chien-Ching Chiu, "A Novel Smart UWB Antenna Array Design by PSO," Progress In Electromagnetics Research C, Vol. 15, 103-115, 2010.
doi:10.2528/PIERC10051106

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