An Origami Based Capacity Resilient and Reconfigurable MIMO System

In this work, the ability of a physically reconfigurable, linear uniform, MIMO antenna with variable interelement spacing to achieve maximum capacity is demonstrated for a variety of propagation scenarios. Propagation scenarios are differentiated based upon the angle of incidence. An example situation with two transmit and two receive antennas is analyzed. It is shown that the maximum capacity is achieved by appropriately selecting the inter-element spacing for different propagation scenarios. Demonstrating the resilience of this reconfigurable antenna, high throughput communications are allowed to be reliably achieved.