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Experimental Investigations to Combat Fading in the NR of 5G Applications with Pattern Diversity

Authors:
Mosbah Abdelkader
Mustafa Benssalah
Ali Mansoul

Keywords: Antennas; Antenna Array; Fading; Diversity; Multi-path; wireless communication; USRP

Abstract:
This work presents a new design and implementation of an Antenna Array with two (02) different elements, to combat interference and multipath effects that occur in the NR of 5G applications. In fact, communication systems impose severe constraints in terms of channel capacity and transmission quality, while keeping the interference and multipath levels low. In this paper, we propose a new approach to combat fading phenomena without requiring any statistical knowledge of the propagation channel parameters. This new design uses two different elements array that adjust the signal phase shifter to maximize the combined received power proportionally to its gradient magnitude. The proposed architecture was implemented on a Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) to perform experimental measurements and examine the performance of this approach. From the obtained results, we can note a 3 dB improvement over the basic approach that was with two identical antennas.

Pages: 1 to 5

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2024

Publication date: May 26, 2024

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3964

ISBN: 978-1-68558-173-2

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from May 26, 2024 to May 30, 2024