Statistical behavior and performance of adaptive antennas in multipath environments

Author

Pham, Tien D.

Author_Institution

Mentor Graphics Corp., San Jose, CA, USA

Volume

47

Issue

6

fYear

1999

fDate

6/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

727

Lastpage

731

Abstract

Adaptive antennas can behave very differently in multipath and nonmultipath environments. In this paper, we study the behavior of adaptive antennas in multipath Rayleigh fading by investigating the statistical variation of the spatial signature of a signal incident upon an antenna array. A method for analyzing the multipath performance of adaptive antennas is presented. It can be shown that the antenna performance becomes less dependent on the angles of arrival (AOA´s) of the incident signals as their angular spreads and antenna element spacing increase. In general, antenna performance improves for increasing element spacing because fading reduction is more effective and interference suppression is possible even when the mean AOA´s of desired and interfering signals coincide

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; adaptive antenna arrays; interference suppression; multipath channels; statistical analysis; Rayleigh fading; adaptive antennas; angular spreads; antenna element spacing; antenna performance; fading reduction; incident signals; interference suppression; multipath environments; spatial signature; statistical behavior; statistical variation; Adaptive arrays; Antennas and propagation; Base stations; Diversity reception; Fading; Interference suppression; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.769343

Filename

769343