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

Volume

4A

fYear

2005

fDate

3-8 July 2005

Firstpage

26

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2005 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8883-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2005.1552572

Filename

1552572