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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 46 Number 6, June 1998

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Experimental Evaluation of Smart Antenna System Performance for Wireless Communications

Shiann-Shiun Jeng, Garret Toshio Okamoto, Guanghan Xu, Member, IEEE, Hsin-Piao Lin, and Wolfhard J. Vogel, Fellow, IEEE

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Abstract:

In wireless communications, smart antenna systems (or antenna arrays) can be used to suppress multipath fading with antenna diversity and to increase system capacity by supporting multiple co-channel users in reception and transmission. This paper presents experimental results of diversity gain, interference cancellation, and mitigation of multipath fading obtained by using a smart antenna system in typical wireless scenarios. Also given are experimental results for the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of two moving users, comparing different beamforming algorithms in typical wireless scenarios. All of the experiments were performed using the 900-MHz smart antenna testbed at The University of Texas at Austin.

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