Performance Evaluation of SDR Blade RF using Wide-band Monopole Antenna for Spectrum Sensing Applications

Authors

  • Ahmed A. Ibrahim Electrical Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia, Egypt
  • Wael A. E. Ali Dept. of Electronics & Communications Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Alexandria, Egypt
  • Hassan Aboushady Sorbonne University, LIP6 Laboratory, CNRS, France

Keywords:

Partial ground plane, software defined radio, wide-band monopole antenna, wireless transceivers

Abstract

A spectrum-sensing algorithm is used to detect the available and the occupied frequency bands. The wideband antenna design approach is used for a microstrip fed monopole antenna that can be used for various wireless technologies such as GSM, UMTS, LTE, and WiFi operating at different frequencies from 1.25 to 3 GHz. The antenna is constructed from two copper layers of rectangular radiator and a partial ground plane. These layers are printed on an RO4003 substrate with dimensions 60 x 80 mm2. The antenna is experimentally fabricated to verify the simulation predictions and good matching between simulated and measured results is achieved. The wide-band antenna is tested by connecting it to the receiver of the Blade-RF Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform. A matlab script is then used to control the SDR board and to perform Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Applications.

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Author Biographies

Ahmed A. Ibrahim, Electrical Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia, Egypt

Ahmed A. Ibrahim was born in 1986. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Electronic and Communication Engineering Department, Minia University, Elminia, Egypt in 2007, 2011 and 2014 respectively. He is now an Associated Professor in Electrical Engineering Department in Faculty of Engineering Minia University. He has been a Visiting Professor in University Pierre and Marie Curie, Sorbonne University, Paris VI, France for 7 months and Otto-von-Guericke-Universität MagdeburgGermany for 6 months. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed journals and conference papers. His research has focused on miniaturized multiband antennas/ wideband, microwave/millimeter components. Also, his research includes MIMO antennas and energy harvesting systems. Ibrahim is senior member of the IEEE and senior member in URSI also member in the National Committee of Radio Science in Egypt

Wael A. E. Ali, Dept. of Electronics & Communications Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Alexandria, Egypt

Wael A. E. Ali was born in 1982. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Alexandria, Egypt in 2004 & 2007, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Alexandria, Egypt. He has published more than 65 peerreviewed journals and conference papers. His research interests include smart antennas, microstrip antennas, microwave filters, metamaterials, millimetric-wave antennas and MIMO antennas for various wireless communications applications.

Hassan Aboushady, Sorbonne University, LIP6 Laboratory, CNRS, France

Hassan Aboushady received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1993, the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Sorbonne University, Campus Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France, in 1996 and 2002 respectively. He also obtained his accreditation to supervise research (HDR) from the same University in 2010. Aboushady is currently an Associate Professor at Sorbonne University, Campus Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France. He worked on the design of high resolution audio Digital-to-Analog converters at Philips Research Laboratories (currently NXP), Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He also worked on the implementation of a baseband continuous-time Sigma-Delta modulator for RF receivers at STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France. Aboushady was a visiting professor for several months at the French University in Egypt, UFE, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, Brazil, and "Technologico de Monterrey", ITESM, Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2007, 2011 and 2013 respectively.

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Published

2021-04-08

How to Cite

[1]
Ahmed A. Ibrahim, Wael A. E. Ali, and Hassan Aboushady, “Performance Evaluation of SDR Blade RF using Wide-band Monopole Antenna for Spectrum Sensing Applications”, ACES Journal, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 219–424, Apr. 2021.

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2021: Vol 36 Iss 4

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