Analysis of smart antenna outage in UTRA FDD networks

Author

Allen, B. ; Beach, M. ; Karlsson, P.

Author_Institution

Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ., UK

Volume

38

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

1/3/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The outage occurring from beamformer-based smart antennas is analysed for an antenna array deployed in an urban macro-cell environment. Spatio-temporal channel data obtained from a small, urban cell and from within the UTRA frequency allocation has enabled beamforming performance to be determined from the measured uplink and downlink frequency bands. The analysis shows a sub-optimum uplink beamformer performance is observed for 8% of occasions and a 25% downlink beamforming outage for an eight-element uniformly spaced linear array

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; array signal processing; cellular radio; code division multiple access; frequency allocation; frequency division multiplexing; receiving antennas; UTRA FDD networks; angular spread; antenna array; beamformer-based smart antennas; cumulative distribution function; downlink frequency bands; dual polarised facet; eight-element uniformly spaced linear array; frequency allocation; high capacity demand; receiving antenna; robustness benchmarking; smart antenna outage; spatial channel impairments; spatiotemporal channel data; suboptimum uplink beamformer performance; uplink frequency bands; urban macrocell environment; wideband vector channel sounder;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:20020002

Filename

977506