Radio Wave Propagation Analysis Using a Dual Polarized Antenna with BSF Characteristics for 4G and 5G Applications

A dual-band and dual slant $\pm \mathbf{45}\ \mathbf{deg}$ polarized inverted omega shape loaded MIMO antenna element, operating for 4G LTE-A (2.3-2.4 GHz) and 5G (3.4-3.6 GHz) applications is presented. A dual-band is realized by introducing the inverted omega (mho) shape loaded with the planar printed dipole antenna element. Dual slant ±45 deg polarization is achieved by utilizing two such modified dipole antennas in orthogonal orientation. Unidirectional radiation for 4G and 5G simultaneous operation is achieved by concatenating the electric conductor as a ground plane. The antenna is backed by a metallic ground plane at $\boldsymbol{\lambda}/\mathbf{4}$ for 4G and 5G operations. The antenna exhibits a beam width of 72 deg and 89 deg with a gain of 7.32 dB and 8.12 dB for a VSWR of 1.5 and 2.0 in the 4G and 5G frequency bands, respectively. radio network planning and wave propagation analysis have been carried out to study the antenna performance in the real-time scenario using 64 QAM and 256 QAM modulation schemes for the DPM model. The obtained downlink/uplink data rate are 3.826/2.8 Mbps respectively and the uplink/downlink throughput were 1044/800 Mbps respectively for the proposed four-stream MIMO antenna configuration at the deployed cell sites.