The benefits of intelligent antenna arrays in TD-CDMA-a study based on measured channel impulse responses

Author

Weckerle, Martin ; Papathanassiou, Apostolos ; Emmer, Dieter

Author_Institution

Res. Group for RF Commun., Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

8-11 Sep 1998

Firstpage

962

Abstract

In January 1998, ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) determined the air interface standard for UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecomunications System). This standard will comprise the component TD-CDMA (time division CDMA). In this paper, the suitability of TD-CDMA for utilizing intelligent antenna arrays at base station receivers and the benefits achievable by such antennas are demonstrated by simulations. Different types of antenna configurations are studied. The directional channel models needed for the simulations are derived from measured channel impulse responses

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna arrays; cellular radio; code division multiple access; digital radio; time division multiple access; transient response; 1815 MHz; TD-CDMA; UMTS; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System; air interface standard; antenna configurations; base station receivers; channel impulse responses; directional channel models; intelligent antenna arrays; time division CDMA; 3G mobile communication; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Base stations; Direction of arrival estimation; Multiaccess communication; Receiving antennas; Source separation; Telecommunication standards; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1998. The Ninth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4872-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.1998.734704

Filename

734704