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Essay on Introducing SMART Antennas to Improve Throughput

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1. Purpose and scope of the system In the current wireless networking standards, omni-directional antennas are used to establish connection between the base station and the user. The radiation emitted from this antenna is spread uniformly in a horizontal manner. These antennas are employed because the base station is not aware of the location of the user. Hence most of the radiated beam is lost or dispersed. Furthermore radiation from neighboring base stations with the same frequency will cause interference. If it is possible to concentrate the beam/radiation only the user and introduce nulls in the area of the interference, most of the radiated power can be made useful and gives users with extended range. Introducing SMART antennas …show more content…

Phased array antennas are to be used, whose array elements in a pattern (linear, circular, planar) collectively give a directional pattern and by changing the phase of the current to these elements the radiation pattern can be steered. Algorithms that is needed to achieve this is – DOA (Direction of Arrival) and Adaptive Beamforming algorithm.
Many algorithms are developed:
Direction of Arrival Algorithms:
• MUSIC – Multiple Signal Classification It is a subspace based DoA algorithm. Subspace algorithms provide high resolution and are more accurate. The physical size of the array aperture is not a concern. MUSIC algorithm is widely preferred. It involves extensive search through all possible steering vectors. [1][2]
• ESPRIT – Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques The algorithm is robust than MUSIC algorithm. Complexity and storage requirements are lower than for MUSIC algorithm. It explorers the rotational invariance property in the signal subspace created by two subarrays derived from original array with a translation invariance structure.[2]
• Root-MUSIC Polynomial version of MUSIC algorithm.
• MVDR – Minimum Variance Distortion-less Response algorithm Aim of this algorithm is to minimize the power contributed by noise and any signals coming from the interferer.
Beamforming Algorithms
There are two types of beamforming techniques. They are switched beam and adaptive array system. Switched beam techniques use

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