Antennas and Propagation for Mobile Communication Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (12 January 2022) | Viewed by 3668
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The imminent emergence of 5G technology in mobile communications systems is posing a new demanding challenge in antenna design that must take into account the particularities of both the different propagation channels and the physical space available in the terminal for the antennas. In fact, design priorities always attend to commercial aspects that make it more attractive rather than to the space needs for the antenna, which in turn must respond to an increasingly demanding compatibility of standards: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 4G/5G, GPS.
The antennas used in this technology can be classified into outdoor antennas such as fixed-base stations, indoor antennas with omnidirectional coverage, and small low-profile antennas for mobile devices. The increase in mobile data traffic given in this next 5G generation will lead to the improvement of techniques already known or the implementation of new ones such as the use of multibeam antennas, which means an increase in coverage. Likewise, miniaturization techniques, group optimization, MIMO systems, bandwidth improvements, among others, acquire great importance. In the future, 6G will have a wider frequency band, higher transmission rate, improved spectrum efficiency, greater connection capacity, shorter delay, wider coverage, and stronger anti-interference capability to satisfy various network requirements.
This Special Issue aims to collect relevant papers describing the latest advances and prospects in antenna design for mobile communications. You are cordially invited to submit a contribution of either an original research or a review article to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Antonio Manuel Martínez González
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mobile communications
- antenna design
- radioelectric propagation
- 4G/5G
- MIMO systems
- chanel characterization
- reverberation chamber
- beamforming
- base station
- measurements techniques
- electromagnetic compatibility
- regulatory issues
- EMF exposure
- multi-beam antenna technologies
- distributed antenna systems
