Demands for increased capacity and better quality of service are driving the development of new wireless technologies such as “smart” antenna arrays. The FPGAs operate as powerful digital signal processing devices, which can meet the requirements of adaptive antenna arrays. The smart antenna systems are efficient than the existing 3G antenna systems as they can track the location of a mobile us...

T Smart Antenna Working Group of the SDR Forum is developing an application-programming interface (API) supporting interoperability and compatibility of various kinds of smart antenna systems operating in a software-defi ned radio (SDR) network following an open-architecture model. The smart antenna API consists of three components: 1. SAControl component is used for controlling the smart anten...

The smart antenna systems combine antenna arrays with digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms. In a smart antenna system a specialized signal processor computes the direction of arrival (DOA) of a user and also adds the strength of the signals from each antenna element together to form a beam towards the direction as computed by DOA. If additional users join in the system, the adaptive anten...

1. Introduction With the rapid growth of various wireless services and applications calling for high data rate transmission there is a demand for developing robust wideband wireless technology. In order to counter count adverse phenomena such as multi-path signal propagation and interference, which become more pronounced in wideband systems, smart antennas can be employed as a remedy. So far, m...

Wireless communication systems utilize smart antennas. Smart antenna have digital signal processing unit. Smart antennas have ability to locate and track signals. Smart antenna performance depends on efficiency of digital signal processing algorithms. The Angle of Arrival (AOA) estimation algorithms is used for estimate the number of incidents signals on the antenna array and their angle of inc...

Smart antennas basically attempt to enhance the desired signal power and suppress the interferers by beamforming toward the DOA (direction-of-arrival) of the desired signal and nullsteering in the case of the interferences’ DOAs in line-of-sight (LOS) situation. This paper considers a smart antenna system for cellular base station application. The signals at the base station are received throug...

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In this paper, a novel multiple antenna system framework, which combines smart antennas (SA) with multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) at the transmitter, is proposed. The downlink capacity of the single-user SA-MIMO wireless systems is investigated. The joint optimization problem corresponding to the capacity is deduced. After that, upper bounds of the capacity are given in general case and i...

This paper presents a simulation study of a smart antenna (SA) system based on direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is based on the MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm for finding the Position Location (PL) of the desired user. The beamformer steer the main beam towards the desired user and nullify all other interferer, through adaptive beamforming using Least Mean Square (LMS) al...