Smart Antennas for Advanced Communication Systems

Author

Chang, Dau-Chyrh ; Hu, Cheng-Nan

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Center, Oriental Inst. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

100

Issue

7

fYear

2012

fDate

7/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2233

Lastpage

2249

Abstract

Blooming in data-communication applications is beyond all expectations. Smart antennas as now regarded as one of enabling technologies for next-generation wireless communication systems with its promised performance on enhancing network capacity. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the classes of smart antenna systems (SASs), including adaptive arrays, multibeam multiple-input-multiple-output (MB-MIMO) antennas, and diversity-antenna systems. This study also demonstrates practical examples of communication system with developed smart antennas, and shows that using smart antennas instead of traditional antennas highly improves the system performance.

Keywords

MIMO communication; adaptive antenna arrays; data communication; diversity reception; adaptive arrays; advanced communication systems; data-communication applications; detailed analysis; diversity-antenna systems; multibeam multiple-input-multiple-output antennas; smart antennas; Adaptive arrays; Array signal processing; Diversity reception; Fading channels; MIMO; Receiving antennas; Reflectivity; Antenna diversity; beamforming network (BFN); multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO); reflector array; smart antenna system (SAS);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2012.2187409

Filename

6171814