Smart antennas for the EDGE wireless TDMA system

Author

Winters, Jack H.

Author_Institution

AT&T Labs.-Res., Red Bank, NJ, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

69

Abstract

We discuss the use of smart antennas in cellular TDMA systems. We first describe the current and proposed use of smart antennas in the the second generation TDMA system ANSI-136. We then describe how smart antennas with space-time processing can be used in the third generation TDMA system EDGE to provide higher capacity and range. We also describe the use and performance of multiple (M) antennas at the terminal as well as at the base station to provide an M-fold increase in the data rate (384 kbps) of EDGE

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; array signal processing; cellular radio; fading channels; interference suppression; multipath channels; multiuser channels; radiofrequency interference; space-time adaptive processing; time division multiple access; 384 kbit/s; ANSI-136; EDGE wireless TDMA system; base station; cellular TDMA systems; data rate; interfering signals suppression; multipath fading; performance; second generation TDMA system; smart antennas; space-time processing; system capacity; system range; third generation TDMA system; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Base stations; Fading; Frequency conversion; GSM; Interchannel interference; Interference suppression; Receiving antennas; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Adaptive Systems for Signal Processing, Communications, and Control Symposium 2000. AS-SPCC. The IEEE 2000

Conference_Location

Lake Louise, Alta.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5800-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSPCC.2000.882448

Filename

882448