Recent Antenna Designs for 4G/5G Wireless Devices
People all over the world are enjoying the high-speed connections that 4G provided as compared to its predecessor. Such high speeds are a consequence of several enabling technologies that were adopted such as modulation, multiplexing and coding techniques as well as the use of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technology. It took MIMO almost two decades to mature and impact wireless technology. The major advantage of MIMO technology is its ability to make use of the multipath problem that degraded the performance of previous wireless single-input-single-output (SISO) wireless communication systems. The ability to send multiple streams of data simultaneously to enhance the achieved data rates was a major milestone for the wireless industry utilizing MIMO.
A major component in MIMO systems in modern wireless devices is the antenna system. Unlike other antenna systems, the design of MIMO antenna systems has a lot of challenges that need to be addressed. In this talk, we will examine the aspects of designing MIMO antenna systems for wireless handheld terminals, access points and base-stations, evaluating their performance and discussing the challenges encountered when integrating multiple antennas in close proximity. Several practical examples that we have come up with at the AMSDL-KFUPM will be presented. The prospects of using MIMO in the upcoming 5G standard and integrating it with the new enabling technologies to achieve the anticipated 1000 times increase in the system capacity by 2020 will be discussed through several examples.
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- Date: 24 Oct 2018
- Time: 06:15 PM to 07:30 PM
- All times are (UTC+03:00) Riyadh
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- Aloft Dhahran Hotel
- Level 1
- Dhahran, Al Mintaqah ash Sharqiyah
- Saudi Arabia 31261
- Room Number: Tactic 3
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Abdullah S. Almuttiri
Chair, IEEE Communications Society Saudi Chapter
- Starts 04 October 2018 01:37 PM
- Ends 23 October 2018 06:00 PM
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Mohammad S. Sharawi of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Biography:
Mohammad S. Sharawi is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He is the founder and director of the Antennas and Microwave Structure Design ( AMSD ) laboratory at KFUPM. Prof. Sharawi has brought more than 10 Million SAR in research funding (~ 2.5 Million USD) in 7 years while with KFUPM. He is the single author of the book "Printed MIMO Antenna Engineering", Artech House, 2014, and lead author of the book "Design and Applications of Active Integrated Antennas", Artech House, 2018. He authored 8 invited book chapters for IET, Springer, McGraw Hill and other publishers. Prof. Sharawi was the recipient of the prestigious Excellence in Research and Distinction Awards from KFUPM in 2015 and the Best Research Project Award 2017. He has published more than 250 refereed journal and conference papers and has 16 issued and 14 pending patents with the USPO. His research interests include Printed Antennas and Antenna Arrays, MIMO Antenna Systems, Millimeter-Wave antennas, Reconfigurable Antennas, Applied Electromagnetics, Microwave Electronics and Microwave System Integration. Prof. Sharawi is a Senior Member in IEEE and a Fellow IET.
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Agenda
- Features of 5G wireless technology
- Importance of Antennas in wireless systems
- Design aspects and performance metrics of MIMO antennas for 4G enabled devices (KFUPM examples)
- Some examples of future 5G MIMO antennas (KFUPM examples)