Title :
Beam falsing loss in switched-beam smart antenna systems
Author_Institution :
Harlow Labs., Nortel, Harlow, UK
Abstract :
Expressions for the `beam falsing loss´ (BFL) are derived for the uplink of a TDMA land mobile radio system using a switched-beam base station architecture. The analysis shows, for representative system parameters and channel assumptions, that in terms of mean BER, the performance degradation owing to the beam falsing is small
Keywords :
error statistics; land mobile radio; multibeam antennas; time division multiple access; BER; TDMA land mobile radio system; beam falsing loss; bit error rate; performance degradation; switched-beam base station architecture; switched-beam smart antenna systems; uplink; Base stations; Correlators; Demodulation; Fading; Mobile antennas; Probability; Rayleigh channels; Receivers; Receiving antennas; Time division multiple access;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 1998. VTC 98. 48th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4320-4
DOI :
10.1109/VETEC.1998.686397
