Direction of arrival angle tracking algorithm for smart antennas
US6483459B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 5, 2001 |
| Grant date | Nov 19, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 5, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S3/42
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Recently, a smart antenna, i.e., a blind adaptive antenna array, has attracted much attention to suppress multiple access interference (MAI) and multipath signals to improve the capacity of a code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless communications system. Most of the smart antenna algorithms either need matrix computation or complex calculations. In this invented direction-of-arrival (DOA) tracking algorithm only 2M complex multiplications are required per snapshot. Further more the DOA tracking algorithm is not sensitive to the mixer phase distortions. Hence the system complexity is reduced since a separate phase calibration is not required for the DOA tracking algorithm. Also the equivalent DOA tracking error due to the mixer phase distortions is derived. Simulation results show that the DOA tracking algorithm in the present invention works effectively under additive white Gaussian (AWGN) as well as Rayleigh fading environments. Also the system employing the invented smart antenna has the same bit error rate (BER) performance as those of other existing smart antennas, however, has less computation burdens and complexity.
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