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I. INTRODUCTION Fig. 1. Geometry of a spiral antenna with voltage sources between the single
arms of the spiral.
Fig. 5. Phase of the pattern of mode 1 and mode 2, shown in Figs. 3 and 4.
Fig. 3. Pattern of mode 1 of the spiral antenna with a radius of 10 cm at 2 GHz The phase of mode 1 changes 360 per circulation around the antenna, mode 2
separated into left (lhc) and right hand circular (rhc) polarization. If the spiral is changes 720 .
fed at the outer end of the arms, the polarization is orthogonal to the one obtained
by exciting at the center of the spiral.
Fig. 8. Gain of the rhc and lhc polarized field of the sinuous antenna with
= 50 and an outer radius of 0.1 m.
III. MULTIMODE-DIVERSITY
MIMO transmission channels are characterized by the
channel matrix , which contains the channel impulse re-
sponses or the channel coefficient in the flat fading case
between the different sets of transmit and receive antenna
ports. For broadband systems the spectrum can be divided into
narrowband sections with flat fading. The diversity gain or
MIMO capacity depends on the correlation coefficients among
those channel coefficients of , see [3], and the SNR. The
correlation is influenced by the statistical properties of the
Fig. 7. Pattern of mode 1 of the sinuous antenna with a radius of 10 cm at wave propagation and the antenna properties, in this case the
2 GHz. is 50 . Mode 3 is orthogonally polarized, but has the same pattern. properties of the single modes. In the following the correlation
coefficient among two receive signals as a function of the
The geometry of a four-arm sinuous antenna is given in Fig. 2 incident field is calculated. This is equivalent to the correlation
and described in detail in [11]. The antenna is self-complemen- among the channel coefficients of for one transmit and two
tary and used as a multimode antenna. The modes are excited the receive antennas in a MIMO system.
same way as for the spiral antenna. The lower frequency bounds The spatial wave propagation properties are describable by
of the modes are a function of different geometry parameters, the power azimuth and elevation profile and
thus are not as easy accessible as for the spiral. In general the for both polarizations and . To allow for analytical calcula-
lower frequency bounds are higher than the ones for the spiral tions typical statistical functions to model the wave propagation
antenna for a given outer radius of the antennas. They decrease are chosen. Measurements have shown, that the power azimuth
with increasing (for see Fig. 2), since the antenna resembles spectrum is best modeled by a Laplacian function [13]
in sections a spiral antenna for large . The patterns of mode for both polarizations. For the power elevation profile a
1 and 2 are given in Figs. 6 and 7. The shapes of the patterns Gaussian function is assumed. The total power angle spectrum is
change only slightly with frequency or , but the polarization given by the product of the Laplacian function for the azimuth
changes. The pattern is alternately left and right hand ellipti- and a Gaussian function for the elevation, normalized so that
cally polarized versus frequency, see Fig. 8. The axial ratio of . With [14] (earlier shown in [8] in a
the sinuous antenna depends on . For large the antenna acts similar way) it can easily be shown that the complex correlation
in sections like a spiral, thus the axial ratio is almost 0 dB. For coefficient among two signals received by different antennas, in
small the antenna is rather linearly polarized. Both modes may this case different modes, is given by
be excited at the center or at the outer ends of the arms, but in
contrast to the spiral antenna, orthogonal polarizations are only (2)
obtained for large ( , spiral-like behavior). The shape
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Fig. 9. Correlation coefficient among mode 1 (a) and mode 2 (c), excited at Fig. 10. Correlation coefficient among the same modes as in Fig. 9, but the
the center of the spiral, and mode 1 (b), excited at the outer edge of the spiral to incident field has an elevation spread of 5 and an azimuth spread of 20 .
generate orthogonal polarizations. The incident field has an elevation spread of Due to slight changes in the pattern for different frequencies the correlation
5 and azimuth spread of 60 . The lower frequency bound of mode 2 is 1.2 GHz, coefficient changes. But it is over the whole frequency range low enough to
thus the spiral does not work correctly for lower frequencies. obtain a diversity gain.
(3)
(4)
where is the ratio of the power in -polarization to the Fig. 11. Correlation coefficient among mode 1 (1), mode 2 (2) and mode 3
power in polarization at the receiver. Note, that is a func- (3) of the sinuous antenna. The incident field has an elevation spread of 5 and
tion of the polarimetric radiation pattern, thus disappears for azimuth spread of 60 . The lower frequency bound of mode 2 is 1.7 GHz, thus
the antenna does not work correctly for lower frequencies.
orthogonally polarized antennas in this case lhc and rhc polar-
ized modes. The power correlation coefficient is obtained by
, according to [15]. the different phases of the patterns of mode 1 and 2 (see Fig. 5)
Basically it is possible to use spiral or sinuous antennas with decorrelate the received signals, since the single plane waves
any different modes and polarizations for multimode-diversity. from different directions superpose differently for each mode.
In the following first a spiral and second a sinuous antenna are The influence of the feed network on the pattern of the modes
used to calculate the correlation coefficients among receive sig- is neglected.
nals. The orientation of the both antenna planes is vertical. A The sinuous antenna is used with three modes, all
spiral antenna with mode 1 and mode 2, excited at the center of excited at the center of the antenna. Figs. 11 and 12 show the
the antenna, and a third mode (mode 1) with orthogonal polar- correlation coefficient versus frequency for the scenarios men-
ization excited at the outer edge of the antenna is used. Figs. 9 tioned above. Mode 3 is orthogonally polarized to mode 1 and
and 10 show the power correlation coefficient between 2, thus the correlation is low. Mode 1 and 2 hardly overlap, thus
different modes for a large azimuth angular spread of 60 and different signals are received.
a small spread of 20 for a mean direction of 10 in azimuth In order to fulfill the requirement of an equal or similar
and 0 in elevation of the incident waves. The third mode is or- SNR of the signals received by different modes to obtain a diver-
thogonally polarized to the other modes, thus the correlation is sity gain the MEG may be used, see [16]. The MEG is defined as
almost zero. The other modes are more strongly correlated as the ratio of the mean received power of one antenna under test
the pattern of mode 1 and 2 partly overlap. On the other hand, to the mean received power of a reference antenna, when both
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Fig. 13. Scenarios for the measurements. For the LOS scenarios transmitter
and receiver are placed in the same room. For the NLOS scenarios the
transmitter is placed in the corridor.
Fig. 15. Transmission gain of different MIMO systems for the path based
channel model. The SISO system has one transmit and one receive dipole.
for all measurements. The transmitter was moved along two dif-
ferent routes, shown in Fig. 13. During the first route a strong
LOS component is present, whereas the other route is always
NLOS. Along each route measurements at 801 discrete frequen-
cies in the frequency range from 1.5 to 2.5 GHz at 210 different
positions were performed. The measured data are normalized,
according to (7), to obtain a constant mean SNR of each channel
matrix of 10 dB. Fig. 14 shows the cumulative capacity distribu-
tion for both routes at 2 GHz. The capacity distribution changes
negligibly with frequency. Due to the higher multipath richness
of the NLOS route, it outperforms the LOS route.
For comparison two dipole arrays, consisting of three dipoles
each, were used, one at each side of the link. The dipoles were
Fig. 14. Measured cumulative distribution functions of the capacity for
different antenna scenarios at 2 GHz. The three dipoles have spacings of =4. arranged in parallel with spacings of and vertical polariza-
The capacity of the NLOS measurements reaches higher capacities as in the tion. The array covers approximately the same area as the spiral
LOS scenarios for a constant mean SNR of 10 dB. antenna with dimensions, so that the resonance frequency of the
dipoles equals the lower frequency bound of the spiral. Fig. 14
dipoles (also simulated with FEKO) with spacings on each shows, that the dipoles perform worse than the spiral, since nei-
side of the link shows, that the gain of the channel matrices of ther polarization nor pattern diversity is exploited. The space
the multimode MIMO system is not worse than with the dipole diversity is very limited due to the small antenna spacings.
arrays. Additionally this distribution function is given for dipole
arrays with spacings on each side of the link. V. CONCLUSION
C. Measurements This paper shows that four-arm spiral and sinuous antennas
The measurements were performed with two spiral antennas. allow to exploit multimode diversity, which is a combination
The antenna were designed for a frequency range from 1.2 GHz of pattern and polarization diversity. The antennas are ex-
up to 2.5 GHz, limited by the feeding network. Mode 1 and 2 are tremely broadband, thus allow applications for multistandard
excited with the feeding network given in [9]. At the outer ends radios. The space required for the antennas is relatively small.
of the arms a hybrid mode with orthogonal polarization com- If placing dipoles on the same space required by the spiral,
pared to the other modes is excited. The coupling between the the dipoles do not reach the capacity of multimode-based
single modes is below 20 dB. The measurement system con- MIMO-systems.
sists of a two channel network analyzer, amplifiers and coaxial
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