Array signal processing has attracted the interest of the scientific community for the past several decades. An Array of sensor elements (be it microphones, hydrophones, antenna elements, piezoelectric sensors) achieves better performance than a single element would. Antenna arrays are made up of antenna elements which can be arranged in a variety of configurations (with respect to the geometry...

Performance Analysis of Adaptive Beamforming Written by Administrator Thursday, 19 May 2011 04:39 Last Updated Thursday, 19 May 2011 04:44 The current wireless cellular base station antenna system employs switched beam technology which suffers from its inefficiency to track the user and limited capacity. The Smart antenna technology which tracks the mobile user continuously by steering the main...

Performance Analysis of Adaptive Beamforming Written by Administrator Thursday, 19 May 2011 04:39 Last Updated Thursday, 19 May 2011 04:44 The current wireless cellular base station antenna system employs switched beam technology which suffers from its inefficiency to track the user and limited capacity. The Smart antenna technology which tracks the mobile user continuously by steering the main...

A novel integrated antenna solution for wireless handheld devices is proposed for the existing 4G standards and upcoming 5G systems for broadband, high data rate communications. The complete antenna system is a unique combination of a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system at microwave frequencies and a millimeter(mm)-wave antenna array. The MIMO antenna system consists of two rea...

Beam Steerable Reconfigurable Antenna with Smart RF Switching on 3D Parasitic Level

With the drive for software defined radio systems, FPGAs are playing a key role in handling the higher data rates to and from the analog front end of these systems. Furthermore, basestations are handling ever increasing channel numbers and the algorithm complexity is also continuing to increase. Traditionally systems scalability was achieved using farms of processors, associated with these, ope...

Sidelobes cancellation is challenging task in beamforming and beam steering in smart antenna systems. The high level of sidelobes can significantly degrade the system performance as well as antenna power efficiency. In this paper, we present the new decimal genetic algorithm to reduce the sidelobe and at the same time create the nulls toward interferers and jammers. This technique takes advanta...

This paper motivates the use of electromagnetic ray tracing for the study of smart antennas in Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) systems. Whereas past ray tracing studies applied to the study of wireless communications systems have been conducted at low spatial resolution for cell-site design, this study makes use of high resolution data so that fast fading effects could be observed. Uplink...