Experimental evaluation of smart antenna system performance for wireless communications

被引:48
作者
Jeng, SS [1 ]
Okamoto, GT
Xu, GH
Lin, HP
Vogel, WJ
机构
[1] Chung Yuan Christian Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Chungli 32023, Taiwan
[2] Univ Texas, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[3] Natl Taipei Univ Technol, Dept Elect Engn, Taipei 10643, Taiwan
[4] Univ Texas, Elect Engn Res Lab, Austin, TX 78758 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
antenna arrays; mobile antennas; multipath channels;
D O I
10.1109/8.686758
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 [电气工程]; 0809 [电子科学与技术];
摘要
In wireless communications, smart antenna systems (or antenna arrays) can be used to suppress multipath fading with antenna diversity and to increase system capacity by supporting multiple co-channel users in reception and transmission. This paper presents experimental results of diversity gain, interference cancellation, and mitigation of multipath fading obtained by using a smart antenna system in typical wireless scenarios. Also given are experimental results for the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of two moving users, comparing different beamforming algorithms in typical wireless scenarios. All of the experiments were performed using the 900-MHz smart antenna testbed at The University of Texas at Austin.
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页码:749 / 757
页数:9
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