Mobile Antenna Systems Handbook, Third Edition

Chapter 15: Smart Antennas

Nuri Yilmazer

Santana Burintramart

Tapan K. Sarkar

Magdalena Salazar-Palma

Kwok Wa Leung

Edward Yung

In this chapter, the smart antenna concept is introduced. The smart antenna is an emerging technology that can be used to tackle the capacity, quality, and coverage problems faced by wireless communication under heavy traffic. It finds its applications in many fields such as military, commercial, and medical. The chapter is organized as follows. First, the problems faced in wireless communication are introduced and the need for the smart antennas systems to solve these bottlenecks is explained. Next, the existing algorithms for smart antennas are explained. A direct data domain approach based on a single snapshot of data, in which there is no need to form a covariance matrix, is explained in detail. Next, the eigenvalue method, forward method, backward method, and forward-backward method are introduced, and simulation results and conclusions are provided.

15.1 DEFINITION

There has been an explosive growth in the wireless communication area in recent years. This growth has forced system designers to increase the quality of service, coverage, and bandwidth. The smart antenna concept appeared around 1950s. Even though it has been mostly used and designed for military applications to direct the energy to desired receivers by using an array of transmitters the smart antenna concept has gained more popularity since the increasing demand in commercial wireless communication. A good source for the historical development of wireless communication can be found in [1].

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