The main objective of this paper is to develop a new software testbed to aid our research on various smart antenna (SA) technologies proposed for future generation wireless communication systems. These models can be used as a platform to test the use of DSPs/FPGs in new generation CDMA-SA systems and will allow to evaluate the array pattern (AP) and the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance over a r...

This paper presents practical design of a smart antenna system based on direction-of-arrival estimation and adaptive beamforming. Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is based on the MUSIC algorithm for identifying the directions of the source signals incident on the sensor array comprising the smart antenna system. Adaptive beamforming is achieved using the LMS algorithm for directing the mai...

Abstract: In this paper, the performance of DS-CDMA system with smart antenna is analyzed for different bandwidths (1.25MHz, 5MHz) and different channel environments (rural, urban). For the analysis of smart antenna system, the vector channel having the spatio-temporal correlation is modeled as a timevariant linear filter in time, and each multipath is assumed as a reflective wave from only one...

Recently, there has been considerable interest in using antenna arrays in wireless communication networks to increase the capacity and decrease the cochannel interference. Adaptive beamforming with smart antennas at the receiver increases the carrier-to-interference ratio (CIR) in a wireless link. This paper considers a wireless network with beamforming capabilities at the receiver which allows...

Recently, the smart antenna (a blind adaptive antenna array) has brought much attention to its ability to improve the future code-division multiple-access (CDMA) wireless communications systems. However, Adachi et al. [1], [2] employed only one out of elements that are in a smart antenna array during the pseudonoise (PN) code acquisition process due to the difficulty in obtaining the weight coe...

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 beam towards the user and at the same time forming nulls in the directions of the interfering signal. The development of smart antennas in...

A four column Smart antenna array fed by a 4x4 Butler matrix augmented by a variable beam shaping network has been designed and simulated. It is demonstrated that using only three phase shifters within the beam shaping network provides dynamic beam flexibility including: four narrow switched beams, a right shaped beam, a left shaped beam and a broad broadcast channel beam. The shaped beams conc...

The Internet of Things (IoT) scenario is strongly related with the advance of the development of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Additionally, in the WSN context, for a continuous feed, the integration of textile antennas for energy harvesting into smart clothing is a particularly interesting solution when the replacement of batteries is not eas...

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...

This work presents an application of convex optimization and algebraic geometry in devising secure, powerefficient, beam-steerable, and on-chip transmission systems for wireless networks. First, we introduce a passively controllable smart (PCS) antenna system that can be programmed to generate different radiation patterns in far field by adjusting its variable passive controller at every signal...