Uma nova antena controlada por reatância com polarização horizontal

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Thiago Luís Silva
• Orientador(a): Castro, Fernando César Comparsi de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: ENGENHARIA ELÉTRICA; TELEVISÃO DIGITAL; ANTENAS (ELETRÔNICA)
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3140

With the broadcast TV digitalization in Brazil, the degradation effects in the digital signals caused by the multipath phenomena can be noticed by the user and this phenomenon has such a severity which is typical in an urban high concentration scenario in tropical zones. The multipath effect is one of the most limiting factors of wireless digital transmission systems performance, especially for systems which operate with high data rate. These effects are minimized in the digital receiver through a channel deconvolution process. Usually, multicarrier systems use frequency-domain deconvolution (e. g. channel estimation and compensation) and single carrier systems use time-domain deconvolution (e. g. adaptive equalization). Not rarely occurs a wireless system scenario which is so intensely adverse – like the one who occurs into big urban Brazilian centers – that neither the time-domain nor frequency-domain channel deconvolution process are sufficiently enough so that it can be obtained a low bit error rate in the digital receiver. In DTV case, generally this implies in an erratic and/or intermittent sound and image reception. In function of this insufficiency of the time-domain and frequency-domain deconvolution processes for adverse operation scenarios, is being proposed in other recent works that the channel deconvolution process be extended to the space-domain through the use of smart antennas. A smart antenna is capable of improving the received signal quality, contributing with the channel equalizer/compensator channel, because it minimizes the many interfering signals which comes from different directions to the receiver (e. g. minimizes the multipath effect) generated by the reflection points in the channel transmission. Briefly, a smart antenna identifies, selects and acts among the many received signals from different spatial directions with the objective of attenuate the interfering signals in relation to the main signal. In this context, the present dissertation proposes a reactance-controlled smart antenna for DTV signal reception, named ISRAEL (Intelligent Steerable Reactive Array plus Electric Loop). Differently of other reactance-controlled smart antennas operation mode, which are sensible to the vertical component of the electric field, the antenna proposed in this work is sensitive to the horizontal component of the electric field, and is also capable of eliminate the interfering signal by generating a null in its radiation field, and this null is steerable along a 360º contour line. This is a significant differential of the introduced proposal, as the Brazilian transmitted signal is horizontally polarized.