Design of a smart antenna for reducing co-channel interference in cellular mobile communications

Author

Saleeb, A.A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Altahady Univ., Sirte, Libya

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

11-16 July 1999

Firstpage

1620

Abstract

Smart antenna techniques offer the possibility of increasing the performance of mobile cellular communications systems by improving immunity to co-channel interference. Thus, the frequency-reuse distance can be reduced, and the number of available channels per cell is increased. In this paper a smart antenna was designed, and the number of elements, the distance between elements, and the weighting coefficients were calculated. The increase in the number of channels per cell was found to be 75%.

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; adaptive signal processing; array signal processing; cellular radio; cochannel interference; frequency allocation; interference suppression; telecommunication channels; CCI; antenna elements; cellular mobile communications; channels per cell; co-channel interference immunity; co-channel interference reduction; distance; frequency-reuse distance; performance; smart antenna design; weighting coefficients; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Directive antennas; Equations; Frequency; Interchannel interference; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Narrowband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1999. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5639-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.1999.788256

Filename

788256