Wireless Sensor Networks are increasingly being employed for monitoring and sensing in harsh environments such as factories and offshore platforms. This technology has the potential to offer measurements over larger and difficult to access areas, giving more up-to date and precise information to inform control and operational systems. Wireless sensor networks are ideal for the development of th...

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...

This paper focuses on the interaction and integration of several critical components of a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) using smart antenna systems. A MANET is a wireless network where the communicating nodes are mobile and the network topology is continuously changing. One of the central motivations for this work comes from the observed dependence of the overall network throughput on the desig...

This paper explores folded patch antennas for the development of low-cost and wireless smart-skin sensors that monitor the strain in metallic structures. When the patch antenna is under strain/deformation, its resonance frequency varies accordingly. The variation can be easily interrogated and recorded by a wireless reader that also provides power for the antenna operation. The patch antenna ad...

The suitable use of an array antenna at the base station of a wireless communication system can result in improvement in signalto-interference ratio (SIR). In the present work, we consider circular array (CA) and concentric circular antenna array (CCAA) that are used for smart antenna systems. The performance criteria for SIR improvement is employed in this paper, is the spatial interference su...

Smart antenna technology is a challenging area in the development of wireless communications. Using smart antennas the quality of a radio link can be improved by many ways. Smart antennas are active antenna arrays or groups with changeable complex-valued weights at inputs and outputs. Good electrical matching of the array and the similarity and ideality of element patterns is usually expected. ...

Recent research interests in the field of wireless personal communications have been moving to the third-generation cellular systems for higher quality and variable speed of transmission for multimedia information. Spatial and temporal signal processing based on an antenna array will become a breakthrough technique for the cellular systems. In order to design and analyze an antenna array, a rad...

In this paper, the problem of estimating directions of arrival (DOAs) of multiple sources observed on the background of white noise by using MUtiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm is proposed. This demonstrates the systems user oriented steering abilities. Using this approach reduces the interference substantially and hence increases the capacity of the system. Smart antenna simulation...

This paper describes a nonblind digital beamformer for SDMA (space division multiple access) systems used when channels are power-limited. An array antenna with many elements is usually required to obtain high antenna gain for the reception of a low-level desired signal and the degree of freedom for the spatial discrimination of many users using the same frequency. The proposed beamformer is de...

In this paper the potential of a smart antenna based dynamic cell size and shape control scheme is assessed. By intelligent control of antenna pattern, the whole cellular network performance can be improved by contracting the antenna pattern around the source of peak traffic and expanding adjacent cells coverage to fill in the coverage loss. We perform a constrained optimization of antenna patt...