Title :
BER measurements on a handset adaptive antenna array in the presence of cochannel interference generated using a spatial fading emulator
Author :
Yamamoto, Atsushi ; Sakata, Tsutomu ; Iwai, Hiroshi ; Ogawa, Koichi ; Takada, Jm-Ichi ; Sakaguchi, Kei ; Araki, Kiyomichi
Author_Institution :
Commun. Devices Dev. Center, Matsushita Electr. Ind. Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan
Abstract :
Little work has been done on the measurement of the BER characteristics of an adaptive antenna in a multipath-fading channel. The paper presents an empirical study of the BER performance of a mobile communications handset adaptive antenna array in a Rayleigh-fading channel generated using a spatial fading emulator. The spatial fading emulator (Iwai, H. et al., IEEE-APS Conf., 2005), which is based on Clarke´s model (Vaughan, R and Andersen, J.B., The IEE, 2003), produces Rayleigh-fading channels for both the desired and interference signals. The effectiveness of an adaptive antenna array composed of 2 half-wavelength dipoles subjected to signals generated by the spatial fading emulator was confirmed by measurements of the BER performance.
Keywords :
Rayleigh channels; adaptive antenna arrays; cochannel interference; dipole antenna arrays; error statistics; mobile antennas; mobile handsets; mobile radio; multipath channels; BER measurements; Rayleigh-fading channel; cochannel interference; half-wavelength dipoles; handset adaptive antenna array; multipath-fading channel; spatial fading emulator; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Bit error rate; Fading; Interchannel interference; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Rayleigh channels; Telephone sets;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2005 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8883-6
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2005.1552572
