Smart Antenna with RF beamforming capability can greatly improve the performance of the vehicle communication system by providing better link quality and high immunity to interference. Butler Matrix is a well-known beamforming network. It can be used for multibeam antennas. The Butler Matrix increases the system capacity and provides higher signal to interference ratio, consequently enhancing t...

In simple words, smart antenna is such that it can sense its environment and can adjust its gain in different directions accordingly. They provide a smart solution to the problem of communication traffic overload i.e. they increase the traffic capacity. They also improve the QOS. RF spectrum is a limited resource and is becoming crowded day by day due to the advent of new technologies. The sour...

Direction of arrival estimation has a noteworthy significance in numerous applications, such as radar systems, smart antennas, sonar, mobile communications, and space communications. The algorithms used to estimate the direction of arrival are to some degree complex and time consuming. Also, the number of antenna elements is a discriminating parameter for assessing the performance of the DoA te...

Diversity is a powerful technique to mitigate fading, hence multiple antenna diversity which includes; multiple devices, spatial diversity, cooperative diversity which uses multiple-element transmitter arrays enhance performance greatly in modern wireless communication networks. Appropriate combining at the receiver realizes diversity gain. major interest in this write up is the MIMO {Multiple-...

Smart antenna is the most efficient leading innovation for maximum capacity and improved quality and coverage. A systematic comparison of the performance of different Adaptive Algorithms for beamforming for Smart Antenna System has been extensively studied in this research work. Simulation results revealed that training sequence algorithms like Recursive Least Squares (RLS) and Least Mean Squar...

—To realize smart antennas necessity with wideband in wireless communication systems, three main fundamental approaches are, (i) space-time signal processing, (ii) spatialfrequency signal processing (filtering of signals that overlay with noise in space and frequency), and (iii) spatial signal processing (beamforming). This research work deals with the spatial signal processing (beamforming) d...

Today, mobile communications play a central role in the voice/data network arena. With the deployment of mass scale 3G just around the corner, new directions are already being researched. In this paper we address about the 4 G mobile communications. The Fourth Generation (4G) Mobile Communications should not focus only on the data-rate increase and new air interface.4G Mobile should instead con...

A performance analysis of an access channel decoder is presented which exploits a diversity gain due to the independent magnitude of received signals energy at each of the antenna elements of a smart-antenna base-station transceiver subsystem (BTS) operating in CDMA2000 1X signal environment. The objective is to enhance the data retrieval at cellsite during the access period, for which the opti...

A cost effective implementation of a 'Smart Antenna' is limited due to the number and high cost of RF array elements, RF distribution as well as phasing elements. Shaped Dielectric Lenses perform the task of collimation, to obtain multiple beams in a fixed set of directions. Lenses are inherently broadband, lower in cost, easy to fabricate, have lower dimensional tolerances, and act a...