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This chapter quotes a literature review on various transmission techniques that enable single RF parasitic antenna arrays to support MIMO applications. Although commonly in the literature purely reactive antenna loading has been assumed, the chapter includes also the case of complex loading, which as illustrated can improve dramatically the beamforming capabilities of ESPAR antennas and the consequent capacity performance. Next, the chapter focuses on transmission techniques assuming purely imaginary antenna loading. First, a stochastic-based algorithm is presented for the estimation of the appropriate loadings that produce a desired pattern. Furthermore, indicative loading architectures are presented that enable the parasitic antennas to achieve MIMO or transmit diversity. It will be understood that ESPAR antennas can be strong candidates for future performance-hungry and lightweight mobile terminals. Except otherwise specified a parasitic array with three elements is considered, with one active in the middle surrounded by two peripherals parasitics.

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Notes

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    Such a spacing is feasible. For example [23] demonstrates an SPA with interelement spacing of λ∕10, whereas [29] demonstrates an ESPAR antenna with spacing of λ∕20.

  2. 2.

    Notice that the basis patterns in (4.35) are orthogonal, but not orthonormal.

  3. 3.

    As noticed in Chap. 3, this is an ideal receiver.

  4. 4.

    The port beampattern is the one obtained when exciting the one port with a unit voltage, while terminating the other to its matching impedance.

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  2. Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Athanasios G. Kanatas

  3. Broadband Wireless & Sensor Networks (B-WiSE) Research Group, Athens Information Technology, Peania, Greece

    Constantinos B. Papadias

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Barousis, V.I. (2014). Transmitter Techniques. In: Kalis, A., Kanatas, A., Papadias, C. (eds) Parasitic Antenna Arrays for Wireless MIMO Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7999-4_4

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