Simulation performance of a blind adaptive array for a realistic mobile channel

Author

Agee, B.G. ; Reed, J.H. ; Cohen, K. ; Hsia, T.C.

Author_Institution

Radix Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

18-20 May 1993

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

100

Abstract

A least squares constant modulus algorithm (LSCMA) is used to blindly adapt a narrowband beamformer to capture a Doppler-shifted and fading binary phase shift keying (BPSK) signal corrupted by noise and multipath. The multipath components are modeled as having equal amplitude and uniformly distributed phase, as well as directions of arrival in three dimensions (the Parsons and Turkmani channel model). Two implementations of the LSCMA are evaluated by computer simulation for a 4-element antenna array moving at 60 mph and 120 mph in noisy environments. In a comparison of bit error rates (BERs) between the two LSCMA implementations and the single antenna, the LSCMAs are found to provide 8 to 9 dB improvement in the link budget for a BER of 1%

Keywords

Doppler shift; adaptive antenna arrays; adaptive signal processing; array signal processing; digital signals; least squares approximations; mobile antennas; multipath channels; phase shift keying; simulation; 120 mph; 4-element antenna array; 60 mph; BPSK; Parsons and Turkmani channel model; binary phase shift keying; bit error rates; blind adaptive array; computer simulation; directions of arrival; least squares constant modulus algorithm; link budget; mobile channel; multipath components; narrowband beamformer; noisy environments; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Computer simulation; Fading; Least squares methods; Narrowband; Phase noise; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1993., 43rd IEEE

Conference_Location

Secaucus, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1267-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1993.507019

Filename

507019