Adaptive multiple-beam array for indoor wireless communications

Author

Kwala, Pimpin ; Sheikh, Asrar U H

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

1992

fDate

16-20 Nov 1992

Firstpage

910

Abstract

An adaptive multiple-beam antenna array is proposed for use in an indoor wireless environment to direct `narrowbeams´ at the desired paths and create nulls towards the cochannel interference (CCI) paths to mitigate the multipath and the CCI impairments. The array performance is evaluated in terms of symbol error rate (SER) for a coherent QPSK signalling scheme. It was discovered that the SER improves with more array elements. The SER with large array is better when there is a dominant path among the multipath. The performance degradation due to CCI depends on the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) and the CCI path DOA

Keywords

antenna arrays; cellular radio; interference suppression; phase shift keying; radiofrequency interference; radiowave propagation; telecommunication channels; CCI; SER; SIR; adaptive multiple-beam antenna array; array elements; array performance; cellular radio; channels; cochannel interference; coherent QPSK signalling scheme; indoor wireless communications; multipath; performance degradation; signal-to-interference ratio; symbol error rate; AWGN; Adaptive arrays; Base stations; Diversity reception; Military computing; Quadrature phase shift keying; Radiofrequency interference; Receiving antennas; Wireless cellular systems; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Singapore ICCS/ISITA '92. 'Communications on the Move'

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0803-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCS.1992.255130

Filename

255130