Adaptive arrays for increased performance in mobile communications

Xiping Steven Wu, Alexander M. Haimovich · 2002

Adaptive antenna arrays are applied at the base station to improve performance of a mobile communication system operating in a flat slowly fading Rayleigh channel. Analytical expressions are derived for the average probability of error of the sample matrix inversion (SMI) and an eigenanalysis-based method for the case of a single co-channel interference. It is shown that the eigenanalysis-method is superior to the SMI method when the array covariance matrix is estimated from small data sets. The analysis is supported by numerical results obtained from simulations.

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