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Abstract

This paper presents a multifunctional antenna with high isolation for interweave and underlay cognitive radio (CR) applications. The proposed antenna consist of an ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna (ANT1) for sensing and communication in UWB spectrum range and a frequency reconfigurable antenna (ANT2) for communication over frequency ranges from 3 to 3.7 GHz and 3.8 to 5.6 GHz. The proposed antenna is designed on an FR-4 substrate 50 × 65 × 1.6 mm³ with a shared ground plane. A square slot and a rectangular stub is introduced in the ground plane to achieve -10 dB wide impedance bandwidth and good isolation over the frequency range of 1.8 to 12 GHz. An underlay CR operation is attained with a UWB ANT1 with reconfigurable band notch of 2.76 to 3.7 GHz by introducing a U-shaped slot. The interweave operation is obtained by incorporating ANT1 and ANT2 in a same substrate. ANT1 without notch band is used for sensing spectrum and ANT2 with reconfigurable frequency is used for communication. The proposed antenna attains both interweave and underlay operations with inter-port isolation greater than 17 dB all over the proposed UWB and communication band.

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Mr. Praveen Singh Rathore

Dr. Ravi Mali

Dr. Rajkumar Jatav

Dr. Manoj Kumar Meshram