Spatial correlation of a circular array antenna and BER performance investigation

Author

Ishizawa, Kenta ; ZHou, Jie ; Sasaki, Seishi ; Muramatsu, Shigeki ; Kikuchi, Hisakazu

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Niigata Univ.

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

6-9 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

385

Abstract

Multiple antenna arrays are promising architectures for overcoming the effects of multipath interference and increasing the spectrum efficiency. In order to be able to investigate these systems, in this article, we derive generalized spatial correlation equations of a circular antenna array for two types of angular energy distributions: a Gaussian angle distribution, and uniform angular distribution. The generalized spatial correlation equations and bit error rate (BER) performance is investigated. It has been reported that spatial correlation and BER performance using linear array antenna, but very few attempts have been made at circular array antenna. It was found from the result that BER of receiving arrival wave with uniform distribution is better than that with Gaussian distribution

Keywords

antenna arrays; correlation methods; diversity reception; error statistics; fading; BER performance; Gaussian angle distribution; MRC; Nakagami fading; angular spread; bit error rate; circular antenna array; diversity reception; multipath interference; spatial correlation; spectrum efficiency; uniform angular distribution; Antenna arrays; Azimuth; Bit error rate; Equations; Fading; Gaussian distribution; Geometry; Interference; Linear antenna arrays; Mobile antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2004. Proceedings. The 2004 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Tainan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8660-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCCAS.2004.1412776

Filename

1412776