NOVEL FOUR–PORT RECONFIGURABLE FILTERING MIMO ANTENNA FOR

MULTI-STANDARD AUTOMOTIVE COMMUNICATIONS

New technical breakthroughs in car electronics have resulted from the increased need

for integrated automobile connectivity. Through the appropriate use of available information

and communication services, today's automotive systems have grown to be smart. The

growth of the system from the traditional form of communication to the current generation of

IoT and WLAN systems has been attributed to improved system performance. Antennas are

fundamentally vital to all of these smart systems, and creating a smart antenna that can

dynamically adjust its electrical characteristics has become the raving trend.

This study focused on the creation of a frequency-agile antenna whose operating

bandwidth may be adjusted to meet the needs of the user. The research paper also

investigated the architecture and testing of a four-port MIMO antenna made of filtering

antenna components. An effort is made to increase antenna coverage by building a four-port

MIMO antenna. MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) is a wireless communications

antenna system that employs multiple antennas at both the source (transmitter) and the

destination (receiver) (receiver). The ECC, ADG, EDG, and MEG MIMO metrics are

assessed and provided. The ECC is less than 0.5, the ADG is more than 9.5 dB, the EDG is

higher than 7.0 dB, and the MEG ratio is around 0dB. The Asymptotic solver in CST

Microwave Studio is used to investigate the on-board performance of the reconfigurable

MIMO antenna.

The patch antenna comprises of an Ultra wideband (UWB) antenna with low-pass and

bandpass filter sections incorporated into the feedline. To attain higher gain characteristics,

the UWB antenna employs a unique radiating patch with a suitably big radiating aperture.

Three different functioning modes are available for the antenna. This allows the proposed
antenna to be used in low-power UWB applications as well as numerous narrowband

communications. The paper also described the design of the UWB antenna as well as that of

the filtering antenna. A unique UWB antenna with a feedline loaded with a pair of filter

sections, namely a low pass filter (LPF) and a hairpin line linked bandpass filter, would be

used to build the filtering antenna (BPF).

The research work also comprised of the design of a bandpass filter (BPF) and a Low

pass filter (LPF). The function of the bandpass filter in this case was to filter the central

frequency bands of the UWB spectrum covering the WLAN bands such as 5.25 GHz, 5.8

GHz and 5.9 GHz. The LPF was designed with the goal of achieving frequency filtering

between 2 and 4 GHz, which covers the majority of information and entertainment systems in

vehicles. As a result, a single pole LPF with a 4 GHz cut-off frequency was used.

Finally, the antenna's performance was compared to the state of the art in the

literature, with the results being compared. The findings revealed that the suggested antenna

complied with the standards for use in a vehicle.