Key techniques for actualizing smart antenna hardware

Author

Hori, T. ; Cho, K. ; Takatori, Y. ; Nishimori, K.

Author_Institution

NTT Corp., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

16-21 July 2000

Firstpage

948

Abstract

Some techniques for actualizing smart antenna hardware are described. First, a design of the radiation part is described including an antenna configuration that is suitable for a street microcell, which considers the propagation environment. Then, in calibrating the transmitters and receivers, an automatic calibration method using a transmitting signal (ACT) is presented, which enables real-time calibration. Finally, for improving the synchronization performance, a novel smart antenna configuration is presented that is particularly suited to high data-rate wireless systems.

Keywords

adaptive antenna arrays; calibration; microcellular radio; synchronisation; ACT; antenna configuration; automatic calibration method; field measurements; high data-rate wireless systems; high-speed wireless access systems; propagation environment; real-time calibration; smart antenna hardware; street microcell; synchronization performance; Antennas and propagation; Base stations; Calibration; Digital signal processing; Frequency synchronization; Hardware; Microcell networks; Receiving antennas; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2000. IEEE

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6369-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2000.875376

Filename

875376