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Adaptive Antennas - An Introduction

Abstract

This paper gives a short introdution to adaptive antennas.Due to the increasing demand for higher spectrumefficiency, the introduction of adaptive or smart antennashas recently gained much attention. By introducing arrayantennas with intelligent beamsteering in mobile basestations, increased system capacity can be achieved byexploiting an access technique called Space DivisionMultiple Access (SDMA). Antenna (spatial) diversitycan be exploited to combat multipath fading effects. Thispaper adresses some topics related to adaptive antennasand present some recent results from both theoretical andpractical experiments.

Category

Academic chapter

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Sustainable Communication Technologies

Year

1999

Publisher

École des mines de Paris

Book

NORSIG-99 : Norwegian Signal Processing Symposium September 9-11, 1999

ISBN

9788299315838

Page(s)

31 - 36

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