A SURVEY ON ANTENNA SELECTION

Abstract

Abstract – Next generation 5G and 6G seek to achieve all-time connectivity for heterogeneous devices. This implies that the devices must stay connected irrespective of channel status. Using diversity in multi-antenna devices, communicating nodes explore different channel paths to improve link reliability. Due to prohibitive implementation costs, antenna selection has been adopted for mobile telecommunication. In the work presented here the authors consider the various approaches in antenna selection, and develop accurate taxonomy to represent current efforts. The rest of the work is organised as follows: section I is the introduction, section II the system model, section III contains discussions on the antenna selection taxonomy, section IV analysis methodology, section V open research areas and section VI concludes the work.