TRANSFORM DOMAIN SMART ANTENNAS ALGORITHM FOR MAI SUPPRESSION

Multiple Access Interference(MAI) is the major factor that degrades the performance of a CDMA system. In this paper, a novel transform domain algorithm combined with parameter estimation for MAI suppression is proposed. Compared with the method that combines an adaptive array antenna with parameter estimation for interference suppression, it converges faster with the same Bit Error Rate(BER) performance.

INVESTIGATION OF UPLINK RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SCHEMES FOR MULTI-SERVICES IN TDD-CDMA SYSTEMS EMPLOYING SMART ANTENNAS

In this paper, a theoretical analysis of Time Division Duplex-Code Division Multiple Access (TDD-CDMA) uplink capacity constraint is presented when employing the smart antenna techniques. The evaluation formulations of capacity and load for multi-services are proposed. In order to maximize the throughput, the objective of optimization is proposed, and an advanced uplink resource management algo-rithm is developed. The proposed algorithm based on the least interference admission control scheme focuses on the maximum throughput for the circuit switched multi-services. The simulation results show that the pro-posed strategy has a significant improvement in throughput when the optimum admission control threshold is set.

Array (Smart) Antennas Improve GSM Performance

As wireless data applications over cellular networks become more widespread, the pressure to increase capacity will become even more intense. Capacity in the 800 and 900 MHz bands, where bandwidth is restricted, is already becoming a limiting factor. This paper attempts to address how the application of smart antenna systems has brought about improvements in call quality and increased capacity through reduced Interference in Mobile Communication. The smart antenna may be in a variety of ways to improve the performance of a communications system. Perhaps most importantly is its capability to cancel co-channel interference. It helps in improving the system performance by increasing the channel capacity, spectrum efficiency, extending range coverage, speech quality, enabling tighter reuse of frequencies within a cellular network and economically, feasible increased signal gain, greater, reduced multipath reflection. It has been argued that Smart antennas and the Algorithms to control them are vital to a high-capacity communication system development.

An externally perceivable smart leaky-wave antenna based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons

Smart antennas have received great attention for their potentials to enable communication and perception functions at the same time.However,realizing the function synthesis remains an open challenge,and most existing system solutions are limited to narrow operating bands and high complexity and cost.Here,we propose an externally perceivable leakywave antenna(LWA)based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons(SSPPs),which can realize adaptive real-time switching between the“radiating”and“non-radiating”states and beam tracking at different frequencies.With the assistance of computer vision,the smart SSPP-LWA is able to detect the external target user or jammer,and intelligently track the target by self-adjusting the operating frequency.The proposed scheme helps to reduce the power consumption through dynamically controlling the radiating state of the antenna,and improve spectrum utilization and avoid spectrum conflicts through intelligently deciding the radiating frequency.On the other hand,it is also helpful for the physical layer communication security through switching the antenna working state according to the presence of the target and target beam tracking in real time.In addition,the proposed smart antenna can be generalized to other metamaterial systems and could be a candidate for synaesthesia integration in future smart antenna systems.

Impact of WCDMA channel multiplexing on smart antenna systems

Smart antenna has been regarded as one promising technology to enhance the performance of CDMA mobile communication systems. However, when applied to 3G systems, the performance of traditional adaptive arrays may degrade due to code and time multiplexing in dedicated physical channels. A novel semiblind adaptive array approach is proposed to solve this problem. It overcomes the selfinterfering problem by introducing a quasidespreading technique for the control channel, and contains a timemultipexed structure to utilize both pilot symbols and unknown control symbols within the control channel. The blind part of the proposed approach is based on the competition of two parallel branches with different reference sequences. Simulation results show significant improvement can be achieved by the proposed approach in a fastfading WCDMA environment.

MI-NLMS adaptive beamforming algorithm for smart antenna system applications

A Matrix Inversion Normalized Least Mean Square (MI-NLMS) adaptive beamforming algorithm was developed for smart antenna application. The MI-NLMS which combined the individual good aspects of Sample Matrix Inversion (SMI) and the Normalized Least Mean Square (NLMS) algorithms is described. Simulation results showed that the less complexity MI-NLMS yields 15 dB improvements in interference suppression and 5 dB gain enhancement over LMS algorithm, converges from the initial iteration and achieves 24% BER improvements at cochannel interference equal to 5. For the case of 4-element uniform linear array antenna, MI-NLMS achieved 76% BER reduction over LMS algorithm.

A MAC PROTOCOL TO SUPPORT HYBRID ANTENNAS IN A WIRELESS LAN

Hybrid Distributed Coordination Function (HDCF),a modified medium access control pro-tocol of IEEE 802.11 standard,is proposed in this paper to support both smart adaptive array anten-nas and normal omni-directional antennas simultaneously in one wireless LAN. Omni-directional an-tennas follow the standard Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) and smart antennas follow the Directional DCF (DDCF). The proposed DDCF is based on Hybrid Virtual Carrier Sense (HVCS) mechanism,which includes Omni-directional Request-To-Send/Clear-To-Send (ORTS/OCTS) hand-shake mechanism and directional data transmission. HDCF is compatible with DCF. When a node transmits in a directional beam,the other nodes can multiplex the physical channel. Hence,HDCF supports Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA). Simulation results show that HDCF can support hybrid antennas effectively and provide much higher network throughput and lower delay and jitter than DCF does.

An Optimized Design of Antenna Arrays for the Smart Antenna Systems

In recent years,there has been an increasing demand to improve cellular communication services in several aspects.The aspect that received the most attention is improving the quality of coverage through using smart antennas which consist of array antennas.this paper investigates the main characteristics and design of the three types of array antennas of the base station for better coverage through simulation(MATLAB)which provides field and strength patterns measured in polar and rectangular coordinates for a variety of conditions including broadsides,ordinary End-fire,and increasing directivity End-fire which is typically used in smart antennas.The method of analysis was applied to twenty experiments of process design to each antenna type separately,so sixty results were obtained from the radiation pattern indicating the parameters for each radiation pattern.Moreover,nineteen design experiments were described in this section.It is hoped that the results obtained from this study will help engineers solve coverage problems as well as improve the quality of cellular communication networks.

AN ADAPTIVE MOVING TARGET TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR SMART ANTENNA SYSTEMS

In wireless communication environment, the time-varying channel and angular spreads caused by multipath fading and the mobility of Mobile Stations (MS) degrade the performance of the conventional Direction-Of-Arrival (DOA) tracking algorithms. On the other hand, although the DOA estimation methods based on the Maximum Likelihood (ML) principle have higher resolution than the beamforming and the subspace based methods, prohibitively heavy computation limits their practical applications. This letter first proposes a new suboptimal DOA estimation algorithm that combines the advantages of the lower complexity of subspace algorithm and the high accuracy of ML based algo- rithms, and then proposes a Kalman filtering based tracking algorithm to model the dynamic property of directional changes for mobile terminals in such a way that the association between the estimates made at different time points is maintained. At each stage during tracking process, the current suboptimal estimates of DOA are treated as measurements, predicted and updated via a Kalman state equation, hence adaptive tracking of moving MS can be carried out without the need to perform unduly heavy computations. Computer simulation results show that this proposed algorithm has better per- formance of DOA estimation and tracking of MS than the conventional ML or subspace based algo- rithms in terms of accuracy and robustness.

NOVEL LSCM BEAM-FORMING ALGORITHM IN SMART ANTENNA MC-CDMA SYSTEM

A novel Least Squares Constant Modulus (LSCM) beam-forming algorithm in smart antenna Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) system is proposed in this paper. It adaptively beam-forms the multi-carrier antenna array signal using the LSCM Algorithm (LSCMA), and in the meantime, the beam-formed signals on every sub-carrier are combined by using Orthogonal Restore Combination (ORC), Equal Gain Combination (EGC) or Maximum Ratio Combination (MRC). Then the decision of the combined signals and the spread-code of the expected user are used to re-construct the signals on every sub-carrier. At last, the difference between the re-constructed signal and the output signal of the beam-former is used to con-trol the coefficients of the beam-former. The bit error probability of the proposed algorithm is analyzed. We simulated and compared it with the conventional LSCM beam-forming algorithm. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is superior to the latter in Bit Error Rate (BER).

Uplink capacity analysis of single-user SA-MIMO system

A novel framework of which combines smart antennas multiple antenna systems, （SA） with multiple-input multiple-output （MIMO） at the receiver, is proposed. The uplink SA-MIMO system is investigated. The joint optimization problem corresponding to the uplink capacity of the single-user SA-MIMO system is deduced. Then the closedform expression of the capacity is obtained in the case of equal power allocation and the same direction-of-arrivals （DOAs） from different transmit antennas at the same antenna array, and an upper bound of the capacity is also given in the case of different DOAs at the same antenna array. After that, for the general case, a suboptimal method for the capacity optimization problem is presented. Some numerical results are also given to compare the capacities of conventional MIMO and SA-MIMO systems and show that the proposed method is viable.

A NOVEL SUPER-RESOLUTION BEAMFORMING ALGORITHM

A novel simply-structured hybrid smart antenna system suitable to be used in ad-hoc network terminals is proposed in this letter. The super-resolution beamforming algorithm is also pre-sented based on the system using DOA estimation results. The algorithm can switch the beamforming to the direction of the expected signal and get the best transmitting performance after the pre-beamforming of the Butler matrix. The shifting value formulas are presented to obtain the best SNR when there is no interfering signal and to acquire the highest Signal to Interference Ratio (SIR) as there is one interfering signal. When there are more than one interfering signals,the pre-beamforming feature of the Butler matrix can also suppress the interfering signals. Simulation results verified the algorithm.

Adaptive Uniform Circular Array Synthesis Using Cuckoo Search Algorithm

Naturally suited array geometry for 360° coverage is the uniform circular array (UCA). A comparison of two types of uniform circular array configurations is presented in this paper. Due to its symmetrical geometry UCA is always targeted which results in minimal change inside lobe levels and beam width when scanned by a phased array antenna. Particle Swarm Optimization and Cuckoo algorithm are used for the calculation of complex weights of the array elements. Comparisons are drawn in the context of adaptive beam forming capabilities. Obtained results suggest that planar uniform circular array (9:10) using Cuckoo algorithm, has better beam forming properties with also reduced side lobe levels when compared to other geometry.

A Comprehensive Survey of TDD-Based Mobile Communications Systems from TD-SCDMA 3G to TDLTE-Advanced 4G and 5G directions

TDD(Time Division Duplex) is one of the two duplex modes.TD-SCDMA(Time division Synchronous CDMA) is the first TDD-based cellular mobile system which is commercialized in wide area and large scale and TD-SCDMA is also the first cellular mobile system which adopted smart antenna technology,also called as beamforming.As the long term evolution of TD-SCDMA,TDLTE(A)(Time Division-Lone Term Evolution,and TD-LTE Advanced) introduced OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)and enhanced smart antenna technology together with MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output),which are adopted by LTE FDD(Frequency Division Duplex) either.It is indicated that TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE(A)have opened a sustainable utilization era of TDD and smart antenna Technologies in the wireless mobile communication.This paper aims to present a systematic introduction to TDD-based mobile communications from TD-SCDMA to TD-LTE and beyond and its comparisons to FDD,with particular focuses on TDD key technologies,principles of TDD cellular mobile systems,TDD evolution path,and future TDD 5G directions.We hope that this paper will provide a comprehensive overview of TDD technology upgrade and its standard evolution,and serve as a valuable reference for research on 5G mobile communication systems.It is believed that TDD will play more important role in 5G.

A Minimum Approximate-BER Beamforming Approach for PSK Modulated Wireless Systems

A bearnforming algorithm is introduced based on the general objective function that approximates the bit error rate for the wireless systems with binary phase shift keying and quadrature phase shift keying modulation schemes. The proposed minimum approximate bit error rate （ABER） beamforming approach does not rely on the Gaussian assumption of the channel noise. Therefore, this approach is also applicable when the channel noise is non-Gaussian. The simulation results show that the proposed minimum ABER solution improves the standard minimum mean squares error beamforming solution, in terms of a smaller achievable system＇s bit error rate.

A Beamforming Technique Using Rotman Lens Antenna for Wireless Relay Networks

Rotman lens,which is a radio frequency beam-former that consists of multiple input and multiple output beam ports,can be used in industrial,scientific,and medical applications as a beam steering device.The input ports collect the signals to be propagated through the lens cavity toward the output ports before being transmitted by the antenna arrays to the destination in order to enhance the error performance by optimizing the overall signal to noise ratio(SNR).In this article,a low-cost Rotman lens antenna is designed and deployed to enhance the overall performance of the conventional cooperative communication systems without needing any additional power,extra time or frequency slots.In the suggested system,the smart Rotman lens antennas generate a beam steering in the direction of the destination to maximize the received SNR at the destination by applying the proposed optimal beamforming technique.The suggested optimal beamforming technique enjoys high diversity,as well as,low encoding and decoding complexity.Furthermore,we proved the advantages of our suggested strategy through both theoretical results and simulations using Monte Carlo runs.The Monte Carlo simulations show that the suggested strategy enjoys better error performance compared to the current state-of-the-art distributed multiantenna strategies.In addition,the bit error rate(BER)curves drawn from the analytical results are closely matching to those drawn from our conducted Monte Carlo simulations.

A modified multitarget adaptive array algorithm for wireless CDMA system

The paper presents a modified least squares despread respread multitarget constant modulus algorithm (LS-DRMTCMA). The cost function of the original algorithm was modified by the minimum bit error rate (MBER) criterion. The novel algorithm tries to optimize weight vectors by directly minimizing bit error rate (BER) of code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile communication system. In order to achieve adaptive update of weight vectors, a stochastic gradient adaptive algorithm was developed by a kernel density estimator of possibility density function based on samples. Simulation results showed that the modified algorithm remarkably improves the BER performance, capacity and near-far effect resistance of a given CDMA communication system.

Effects of Spatial Characteristics on Smart Antenna System with Uniform Linear Antenna Array

The effect of the spatial characteristics of antenna array on smart antenna systems can not be neglected. In the paper, the relation between spatial correlation and inter-antenna distance, impinging angle, angle spread is first investigated. With the same beam forming algorithm, we simulate the performance of smart antenna system with different Angle Spread （AS） values on the conditions of ideal and real Angle of Arrival （AOA） estimation. The results show that with the ideal AOA estimation, the AOA is enough accurate to guarantee that the system only has little performance degradation even in the case of 20 degreee AS value while the real AOA estimation influenced by channel environment degrades the performance very obviously, up to about 7 dB.

Simulation and analysis of node throughput using smart antenna in wireless mesh networks

Smart antenna technology is introduced to wireless mesh networks. Smart antennas based wider-range access medium access control （MAC） protocol （SWAMP） is used as MAC protocol for IEEE 802.11 mesh networks in this study. The calculation method of node throughput in chain and arbitrary topology is proposed under nodes fairness guarantee. Network scale and interference among nodes are key factors that influence node throughput. Node distribution pattern near the gateway also affects the node throughput. Experiment based on network simulator-2 （NS-2） simulation platform compares node throughput between smart antenna scenario and omni-antenna scenario. As smart antenna technology reduces the bottle collision domain, node throughput increases observably.

An Evolutionary Approach to Improve the Beam Steering Performance over Conventional Approach in CHAA

In this work,evolutionary algorithms are applied for the first time to achieve better radiation characteristics over the conventional beamforming algorithm in the concentric hexagonal antenna array(CHAA),which improves the performance of wireless communication.Multiple signal classification(MUSIC)algorithm is employed for direction of arrival(DoA)estimation.The conventional adaptive beam steering algorithm,least mean-square(LMS)algorithm,is used to steer the beam.Further,the proposed approach is employed by novel particle swarm optimization(NPSO)to reduce sidelobe level(SLL)even further.A six-ring CHAA with 126 elements for DoA estimation and beam steering is simulated.The simulation results of the MUSIC,LMS,NPSO,and particle swarm optimization(PSO)algorithms are provided for various DoAs.