An approach to enhance antenna spectral efficiency is proposed based on combining spacetime electromagnetic (EM) models of Tx/Rx antennas with orthogonal frequency division multiaccess (OFDM), leading to the EM-OFDM, a technology capable of removing intersymbol interference (ISI) in high-data rate communication links caused by the EM-induced distortion antenna effects. The proposed approach differs from traditional OFDM in wireless communication in several aspects. First, the technique suggests a new decoupling approach by treating each given antenna transreceive device pair as a "stand-alone channel" with its own distortion mechanisms considered separately from the propagation channel. Moreover, the deterministic distortion caused by the nonflat pure antenna EM filtration effects is exploited to carefully design a specialized OFDM transmission techniques based on the antenna parameters, not the multipath fading channels often invoked in conventional uses of OFDM methods. (The EM-OFDM, however, can be combined with a traditional OFDM later if fading channels are present.) In this manner, a more efficient implementation of the wireless link equalization strategy may be enacted since the EM antenna origin of ISI is very different from the traditional propagation channel one. As a proof
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