Experimental evaluation of smart antenna system performance for wireless communications
Shiann‐Shiun Jeng, Garret T. Okamoto, Guanghan Xu, Hsin‐Piao Lin, Wolfhard J. Vogel · IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation · 1998
In wireless communications, smart antenna systems (or antenna arrays) can be used to suppress multipath fading with antenna diversity and to increase the system capacity by supporting multiple co-channel users in reception and transmission. This paper presents experimental results of diversity gain, interference cancellation, and mitigation of multipath fading obtained by using a smart antenna system in typical wireless scenarios. Also given are experimental results for the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of two moving users, comparing different beamforming algorithms in typical wireless scenarios. All of the experiments were performed using the 900-MHz smart antenna testbed at The University of Texas at Austin.