SMART ANNTENA

Parul Chouhan Electronics and communication department, IIMET, Rajasthan technical University. Smart antennas are a promising technology to increase the capacity of cellular systems. owever, under severe channel conditions, the capacity gain may be small. This work presents a general methodology for the analysis of the effect of the power angular dispersion on the capacity gain when using smart antennas. The omni-directional case becomes particular case of the presented methodology. Finally, the maximum number of users is determined for a smart antenna system and for general antenna beam pattern. As the growing demand for mobile communications is constantly increasing, the need for better coverage, improved capacity, and higher transmission quality rises. Thus, a more efficient use of the radio spectrum is required. Smart antenna systems are capable of efficiently utilizing the radio spectrum and are a promise for an effective solution to the present wireless systems problems while achieving reliable and robust, high-speed, high-data-rate transmission. The purpose of this topic is to provide a broad view of the system aspects of smart antennas. In fact, smart antenna systems comprise several critical areas such as individual antenna array design, signal processing algorithms, space-time processing, wireless channel modeling and coding, and network performance. In this topic an overview of smart antenna concepts is included. Aim of this contribution is to illustrate the state of the art of smart antenna research from several perspectives. The bow is drawn from transmitter issues via channel measurements and modeling, receiver signal processing, network aspects, technological challenges towards first smart antenna applications and current status of standardization. Moreover, some future prospects of different disciplines in smart antenna research are given.

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