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In this introductory chapter we will review the conventional paradigm through which antenna arrays can be used for spatial multiplexing and other spatially enabled wireless communication techniques. We will focus on Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) systems and provide a brief overview of their basic attributes, as well as the most important limitations. Then we will refer to the phenomenon of mutual coupling, which is typically viewed as a foe of MIMO systems and hint to the fact that it can be actually used as an enabler of advanced spatial processing with the use of parasitic antenna arrays. The goal of the chapter is to pave the way for the detailed elaboration of how parasitic antennas can be used for such spatially enabled communication that will follow in the subsequent chapters.
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We would like to acknowledge the funding offered by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (FP7) via projects CROWN (FET # 233843), HIATUS (FET # 265578), and HARP (Future Networks # 318489), which all contain studies on parasitic antenna arrays for various wireless communication networking paradigms (ranging from cognitive radio to interference alignment to remote radio heads), thus greatly enhancing the community’s collective understanding of this emerging technology and its applications.
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Papadias, C.B. (2014). Antenna Arrays: The Conventional Paradigm and an Emerging New Approach. 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_1
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