Antenna Pattern Multiplexing for Enhancing Path Diversity DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.89098

The property deduces the proposed APM, which can obtain diversity gain from path diversity and diversity reception based on the virtual antennas.

On the other hand, numerical results show that the ergodic capacity is equivalent to that of the conventional MIMO systems when the average SNR per antenna pattern is constant. Then, the proposed APM-based receiver can exploit path diversity gain and antenna pattern diversity maximally without additional physical antenna elements.

Future work is a development of efficient multiplexed antenna patterns, which have larger number of orthogonal antenna patterns than the number of antenna elements equipped with a cable.
