Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: UWB Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna for Wireless Sensor Networks Applications

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"UWB Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna for Wireless Sensor Networks Applications"
by Hetal Pathak
in the 2011 International Conference on Communications Systems and Network Technologies, 2011, pp. 246 - 249

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied with insufficient attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"UWN Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna with 3 Bit Band Rejection for Wireless Sensor"
by Hala Elsadek, Ahmed Khidre, Abel Abdel Rahman, Abbas Omar, Hani Ragai
in the 14th WSEAS International Conference on Communications, 2009, pp. 98 - 102


With the progress in wireless communications techniques in recent years, a new promising concept of wireless sensor networks has received a well deserved attention by researchers all over the world. Embedded sensors offer intelligent devices and systems that are able to react to events and physical conditions of the real world. The most important component in sensor is its TX/RX antenna. In this paper, UWB printed monopole antenna with embedded reconfigurable multi band frequency rejection notches is proposed. Frequency notch is achieved by using a ground-plane slot (GPS) and lumped capacitors. Reconfigurability is introduced in a way you can independently switch ON/OFF the band notches by mean of RF switches. Simulation results are verified with measurements.