Radio Engineering Designs in Internet-of-Things

Radio Engineering Designs in Internet-of-Things

Future wireless communication systems such as Fifth- Generation (5G) wireless network should be capable of accommodating higher data rates than the current systems owing to the advent of various multimedia services. One of the promising solutions in the 5G network design is massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) network, which deploys large scale of antennas (more than one antenna) at both ends of the communication link. Since the base station can handle hundreds of simultaneous users now, that is not enough to accommodate the billions of new devices that will hook into the Internet-of-Things (IoT). Therefore, the radio system design for IoT becomes more complex than before. There has been a lot of interest on addressing the challenges of electromagnetic interfaces, antenna design, signal and power integrity, and high-speed circuit design, while simultaneously addressing power, performance, size and cost constraints.

Keywords: Antennas, MIMO, propagation, advanced wireless communication system, 5G wireless network.