BER Measurement on a Handset Adaptive Antenna Array in a Rayleigh-Fading Channel by a Variable-XPR Spatial Fading Emulator
Akira Yamamoto, T. Sakata, H. Iwai, Koichi Ogawa, Jun‐ichi Takada, Kei Sakaguchi, Kenji Araki · 2006 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium · 2006
This paper presents an empirical study of the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of a handset adaptive antenna array in a Rayleigh-fading channel with a cross-polarized signal generated using a variable cross-polarization power ratio (XPR) spatial fading emulator. We have investigated the BER characteristics of a handset adaptive antenna consisting of a 1/4-wavelength monopole antenna and a planar inversed-F antenna (PIFA) as a function of XPR. It can be concluded that the measured average BER of an adaptive antenna array with both theta and phi components has an excellent BER performance in a multipath propagation environment with a cross-polarized component