Data-driven Interpolation Methods Applied to Antenna System Responses : Implementation of and Benchmarking

Abstract: With the advances in the telecommunications industry, there is a need to solve the in-band full-duplex (IBFD) problem for antenna systems. One premise for solving the IBFD problem is to have strong isolation between transmitter and receiver antennas in an antenna system. To increase isolation, antenna engineers are dependent on simulation software to calculate the isolation between the antennas, i.e., the mutual coupling. Full-wave simulations that accurately calculate the mutual coupling between antennas are timeconsuming, and there is a need to reduce the required time. In this thesis, we investigate how implemented data-driven interpolation methods can be used to reduce the simulation times when applied to frequency domain solvers. Here, we benchmark the four different interpolation methods vector fitting, the Loewner framework, Cauchy interpolation, and a modified version of Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation. These four interpolation methods are benchmarked on seven different antenna frequency responses, to investigate their performance in terms of how many interpolation points they require to reach a certain root mean squared error (RMSE) tolerance. We also benchmark different frequency sampling algorithms together with the interpolation methods. Here, we have predetermined frequency sampling algorithms such as linear frequency sampling distribution, and Chebyshevbased frequency sampling distributions. We also benchmark two kinds of adaptive frequency sampling algorithms. The first type is compatible with all of the four interpolation methods, and it selects the next frequency sample by analyzing the dynamics of the previously generated interpolant. The second adaptive frequency sampling algorithm is solely for the modified NevanlinnaPick interpolation method, and it is based on the free parameter in NevanlinnaPick interpolation. From the benchmark results, two interpolation methods successfully decrease the RMSE as a function of the number of interpolation points used, namely, vector fitting and the Loewner framework. Here, the Loewner framework performs slightly better than vector fitting. The benchmark results also show that vector fitting is less dependent on which frequency sampling algorithm is used, while the Loewner framework is more dependent on the frequency sampling algorithm. For the Loewner framework, Chebyshev-based frequency sampling distributions proved to yield the best performance.