The impact of AOA energy distribution on the spatial fading correlation and SER performance of a circular antenna array

Author

Wang, Jiejun ; Huang, Chao ; ZHou, Jie ; Kikuchi, Hisakazu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Commun., Nanjing Univ. of Inf. Sci., China

fYear

2006

fDate

11-13 April 2006

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the spatial fading correlation and symbol error rate (SER) performance of M-ray phase shift keying (MPSK) with maximal ratio combining (MRC) for a circular antenna array for two types of angle of arrival (AOA) energy distributions: a uniform AOA energy distribution and a Gaussian AOA energy distribution. The spatial fading correlation and SER performance of a circular antenna array are the functions of radius of circular array, the AOA energy distribution, and the central angle of arrival. Analysis shows that the SER performance is mainly determined by the eigenvalues of the fading correlated matrix. Results show that the two AOA energy distributions give the similar spatial fading correlation and SER performance for the same scattering angle.

Keywords

Gaussian processes; antenna arrays; direction-of-arrival estimation; fading; matrix algebra; phase shift keying; Gaussian AOA energy distribution; M-ray phase shift keying; MPSK; angle of arrival; circular antenna array; fading correlated matrix; maximal ratio combining; scattering angle; spatial fading correlation; symbol error rate; Antenna arrays; Binary phase shift keying; Diversity reception; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Fading; Linear antenna arrays; Phased arrays; Receiving antennas; Scattering; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2006 IFIP International Conference on

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0340-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOCN.2006.1666549

Filename

1666549