MIMO Antenna Design and Performance Enhancement for Wireless Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2026 | Viewed by 461
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Aden, Aden 5243, Yemen
Interests: antenna design and wireless communication systems; emphasizing developing compact; high-performance antennas for innovative applications
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Interests: dielectric measurement of MW absorber materials; planar printed antenna for MW, mm-wave, and THz frequency bands; metamaterial array UWB antennas in MW and UWB imaging, and wearable technology
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Interests: 5G/6G future wireless networks; antennas; body area networks (BAN); wearable antenna design; ultra-low power communication protocols (MAC and network/routing protocols); satellite communications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent development in wireless technologies such as 5G, 6G, IoT, satellite communications, vehicular networks, biomedical devices, radar platforms and distributed sensing systems requires high-performance antenna systems to support higher data rates, reliability, and spectral efficiency. In many modern sensing and monitoring applications, including environmental monitoring, smart infrastructure, healthcare sensing and radar-based detection, antenna systems play a critical role as the interface between the physical environment and sensing hardware. To achieve these requirements, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antenna technology is used, thereby boosting channel capacity, minimizing multipath fading, increasing diversity gain, and allowing beamforming and spatial multiplexing. These advantages make MIMO technology particularly attractive for next-generation wireless sensing platforms and sensor networks. Novel MIMO antenna designs are required to improve compactness, isolation, bandwidth, efficiency and system integration at different frequency bands.
Despite its importance, it faces many challenges in terms of reducing its size while guaranteeing low mutual coupling, especially at higher-frequency bands. Research continues to reduce mutual coupling, achieve high isolation in constrained form factors, improve the envelope correlation coefficient (ECC), increase gain and radiation efficiency and integrate reconfigurability or intelligent optimization. Moreover, the increasing integration of communication, sensing and localization functions leads to the development of versatile and high-performance MIMO antenna systems applicable to diverse environments and use cases.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to MIMO antenna design, optimization and implementation breakthroughs across antenna types and frequency ranges for sensing and sensor-enabled wireless systems. We consider contributions addressing theoretical breakthroughs, creative design methods, performance enhancement tactics and experimental validations of MIMO antenna systems for communication and sensing applications.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
Compact MIMO antenna designs;
Wide, multi- and ultra-wideband MIMO antennas;
Sub-6 GHz, mmWave, and terahertz MIMO antennas;
Reduce mutual coupling and improve isolation in MIMO systems;
MIMP diversity performance enhancement (ECC, DG, CCL and TARC);
Configurable and adaptive MIMO antennas;
Beamforming with massive MIMO;
Optimization and design of antennas using AI and ML;
Flexible, implantable and wearable MIMO antennas;
MIMO antennas for IoT sensing, vehicular sensing, satellite sensing, radar sensing and wireless sensor networks;
Experimental validation, measurement techniques and sensor-integrated MIMO systems.
Dr. Sahar Saleh
Dr. Tale Saeidi
Dr. Nick Timmons
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- MIMO antenna systems
- diversity performance enhancement
- compact and miniaturized antennas
- wideband and multiband MIMO antennas
- millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO
- massive MIMO systems
- beamforming techniques
- reconfigurable MIMO antennas
- AI-driven antenna optimization
- wireless sensing systems
- radar and RF sensing
- IoT sensor networks and sensor-integrated antenna systems
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