International Journal of Wireless and Microwave Technologies (IJWMT)

IJWMT Vol. 5, No. 3, May. 2015

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REGULAR PAPERS

Radiation Characteristics Enhancement of Microstrip Triangular Patch Antenna using Several Array Structures

By Hayat Errifi Abdennaceur Baghdad Abdelmajid Badri Aicha Sahel

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2015.03.01, Pub. Date: 1 May 2015

In the recent years the development in communication systems requires the development of low cost, minimal weight and low profile antenna that is capable of maintaining high performance over a wide spectrum of frequencies. This technological trend has focused much effort into the design of a microstrip patch antenna. The aim of this paper is to design and simulate a triangular microstrip patch array antenna using HFSS software and compare the performance of 2 elements, 4 elements and 8 elements patch arrays with that of a single patch for the same operating frequency. Also comparisons are made between the performance of series, corporate and series-corporate feed network. These arrays are designed to operate at a frequency of 11 GHz. Our goal is to obtain a high directivity with better gain and reduced losses, to be especially used for X band applications such as satellite communication, radar, medical applications, and other wireless systems.

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Comparative Analysis of Various Inter-Carrier Interference Cancellation Methods

By Naresh Kumar Gurleen Kaur B.S. Sohi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2015.03.02, Pub. Date: 1 May 2015

This paper provides a review of various inter carrier interference cancellation methods used in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) in the downlink of Long Term Evolution (LTE) and in many other applications. It contains the analysis of different methods, their explanations, areas of implementation, advantages, drawbacks and finally a comparison of the methods has been made. The paper is based on the fact that during OFDM reception, the overlapping frequencies interfere due to various reasons and different methods have to be applied to avoid interference among the frequencies for a proper reception at the receiver.

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Location based Energy Efficient Scheme for Maximizing Routing Capability of AODV Protocol in MANET

By Sudhir Goswami Chetan Agrawal Anurag Jain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2015.03.03, Pub. Date: 1 May 2015

Nodes in Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) are forming a dynamic topology by that the nodes are continuously change their location and also the nodes functioning is dependent on the limited battery capacity that is called energy. The dynamic behavior of network connection is not maintained for long time. All nodes in network are energy dependent and efficient energy utilization is one of the important criteria in MANET. In this paper we proposed a new location based energy efficient scheme with AODV protocol. In this scheme energy dependent nodes are improving the routing capability of AODV protocol on the basis of location based protocol LAR (Location Aided Routing protocol). In network nodes are not aware about their energy status and also recur flooding of routing packets are consumes more energy in network by that the most of the energy is wasted in connection establishment. LAR protocol reduces that possibility of destination finding by maintain the record of location of each node in network respect to other nodes. It implies that every node in network is maintaining the record of other nodes (participating in routing procedure) with their current location and speed. If the nodes in network are know about the energy status and also about the status of location of receiver that reduces the energy consumption. The main aim of proposed scheme is to enhance the energy utilization in network. The performance of normal AODV, AODV with LAR and AODV with LAR and Energy is illustrate here and observe that the LAR protocol reduces the energy consumption and prolog the network lifetime that completely depend on the energy of mobile nodes.

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