Low-profile high-gain antennas for SOTM terminals with massive MIMO

适用于具有大规模 MIMO 的 SOTM 终端的薄型高增益天线

• 批准号: 461030-2013
• 负责人: Yang, HongChuan
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of Victoria
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=542426
• 关键词: Low; profile; gain; antennas; SOTM

Providing high speed connection to moving cars driving through remote area with limited infrastructure represents a promising application area for future satellite communication industry. One of the key technical challenges is to develop low-profile cost-effective high performance antennas for SOTM (Satcom-On-The-Move) terminals. Existing solutions typically entails high implementation complexity, which limits their application to standard commercial cars. In this research project, we propose to develop effective and low-complexity solutions for SOTM antennas. The objective is to achieve comparable link performance with conventional parabolic reflection antennas with much lower profile and no mechanical tracking parts. We plan to explore the recent advanced in the area of multiple antenna transmission and receiver technologies, massive MIMO technologies more specifically, to address this challenging design problem. The proposed approach will adaptively utilize a large number of antenna elements based on their instantaneous channel state information, which has the potential to lead to much improved performance than previously proposed phased array antennas. The technology developed from the proposed research program will be directly applied to Canadian private sector and enhance the competition advantage of Canadian company in the field of mobile satellite antennas.

提供高速连接，以有限的基础设施驶入偏远地区的行驶汽车代表了未来卫星通信行业的一个有希望的应用领域。主要的技术挑战之一是为SOTM（satcom-on-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-move）开发低调的高性能高性能天线。现有的解决方案通常需要高实施复杂性，这将其应用于标准的商业汽车。在该研究项目中，我们建议为SOTM天线开发有效和低复杂的解决方案。目的是与传统的抛物线反射天线实现可比的链接性能，其轮廓较低，没有机械跟踪零件。我们计划探索多个天线传输和接收器技术领域的最新进展，更具体地说明了MIMO技术，以解决这个具有挑战性的设计问题。所提出的方法将根据其瞬时通道状态信息自适应地利用大量天线元件，这可能会导致比以前提出的分阶段阵列天线的性能更大。拟议的研究计划开发的技术将直接应用于加拿大私营部门，并增强加拿大公司在移动卫星天线领域的竞争优势。