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Performance of a MIMO Y-Shaped Antenna Array with Electromagnetic Vector Sensors

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This paper developed a uniform Y-shaped array (UYA) in a 3-dimensional (3-D) environment. While introducing electromagnetic vector sensor (EVS), the closed-form expression of spatial fading correlation (SFC) was derived. The SFC was expressed in terms of azimuth and elevation angles of arrival and the geometry of an antenna array. The developed SFC can be used to determine the covariance matrixes at both transmitter and receiver hence the capacity can be calculated in a specific channel state. This paper studied on the performance of azimuth and elevation angles of arrival, azimuth spread and elevation spread on the SFC and the capacity of a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. The performance comparison between antenna arrays while introducing EVS and the traditional scalar sensor array (SSA), as a uniform Y-shaped array and a uniform circular array (UCA), were made. Simulation results showed that comparing to SSA, the antenna array which introducing EVS had a significant advantage and, UCA and UYA both had its own superiorities. This investigation expanded the application of statistical channel model and optimized the study of terminal antenna array.

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The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, which greatly helped improve the paper. Here also acknowledge Professor Fumiyuki Adachi for his helps to finish this paper, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61372128 and 61471153) and the Scientific and Technological Support Project (Industry) of Jiangsu Province (No. 14KJA510001).

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  1. College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, 210044, Nanjing, China

    Jie Zhou & Yalin Wang

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Niigata University, Niigata-City, 950-2181, Japan

    Jie Zhou & Hisakazu Kikuchi

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Zhou, J., Wang, Y. & Kikuchi, H. Performance of a MIMO Y-Shaped Antenna Array with Electromagnetic Vector Sensors. Wireless Pers Commun 86, 1141–1158 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2979-9

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