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Advances in Smart Antennas

  1. In mobile communication systems with multisensor antennas at base stations, downlink channel estimation plays a key role because accurate channel estimates are needed for transmit beamforming. One efficient ap...

    Authors: Mehrzad Biguesh and Alex B. Gershman
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:963649
  2. A performance analysis of an access channel decoder is presented which exploits a diversity gain due to the independent magnitude of received signals energy at each of the antenna elements of a smart-antenna b...

    Authors: Seongdo Kim, Seungheon Hyeon and Seungwon Choi
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:921237
  3. Space-time block coding (STBC) provides substantial diversity advantages with a low decoding complexity. However, these codes are not designed to achieve coding gains. Outer codes should be concatenated with S...

    Authors: M. Uysal and C. N. Georghiades
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:904563
  4. Space-division multiple-access (SDMA) systems that employ multiple antenna elements at the base station can provide much higher capacity than single-antenna-element systems. A fundamental question to be addres...

    Authors: Haipeng Jin and Anthony Acampora
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:890549
  5. A novel algebraic method for the simultaneous estimation of MIMO channel parameters from channel sounder measurements is developed. We consider a parametric multipath propagation model with ...

    Authors: Marius Pesavento, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker and Johann F. Böhme
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:839148
  6. A model of an angle-spread source is described, termed the "Gaussian channel model" (GCM). This model is used to represent signals transmitted between a user equipment and a cellular base station. It assumes a...

    Authors: DDN Bevan, VT Ermolayev, AG Flaksman and IM Averin
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:805292
  7. In the context of multiuser detection for the DS-CDMA uplink, out-of-cell interference is usually treated as Gaussian noise, possibly mitigated by overlaying a long random cell code on top of symbol spreading....

    Authors: Tao Jiang and Nicholas D Sidiropoulos
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:792048
  8. To approach the potential MIMO capacity while optimizing the system bit error rate (BER) performance, the joint transmit and receive minimum mean squared error (MMSE) design has been proposed. It is the optima...

    Authors: Nadia Khaled, Claude Desset, Steven Thoen and Hugo De Man
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:746413
  9. We construct a class of linear quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes that achieve full diversity over quasistatic fading channels for any transmit antennas. These codes achieve a normalized rate of one symbo...

    Authors: Naresh Sharma and Constantinos B. Papadias
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:712052
  10. Smart antennas exploit the inherent spatial diversity of the mobile radio channel, provide an antenna gain, and also enable spatial interference suppression leading to reduced intracell as well as intercell in...

    Authors: Andreas Czylwik and Armin Dekorsy
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:703278
  11. Adaptive-type smart antennas do not usually operate on the deployed universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) scenarios, although UTRA (UMTS terrestrial radio access) foresees their operation and they w...

    Authors: Ramón Martínez Rodríguez-Osorio, Laura García García, Alberto Martínez Ollero, Francisco Javier García-Madrid Velázquez, Leandro de Haro Ariet and Miguel Calvo Ramón
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:656843
  12. We introduce a novel merger of direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) and smart antenna arrays. With regard to the DS-CDMA scheme, we employ carrier interferometry DS-CDMA (CI/DS-CDMA), a nove...

    Authors: Seyed Alireza Zekavat, Carl R. Nassar and Steve Shattil
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:617413
  13. An improved antenna array (AA) has been introduced, in which reverse-link synchronous transmission technique (RLSTT) is incorporated to effectively make better an estimation of covariance matrices at a beamfor...

    Authors: Yong-Seok Kim, Seung-Hoon Hwang, Hyo-Yol Park and Keum-Chan Whang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:608509
  14. This paper develops the optimal linear transformation (or precoding) of orthogonal space-time block codes (STBC) for minimizing probability of decoding error, when the channel covariance matrix is available at...

    Authors: Yi Zhao, Raviraj Adve and Teng Joon Lim
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:602046
  15. In conventional transmission schemes, the transmitter algorithms are a priori given, whereas the algorithms to be used by the receivers have to be a posteriori adapted. Such schemes can be termed transmitter (...

    Authors: Michael Meurer, Paul Walter Baier and Wei Qiu
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:583128
  16. A nonlinear detection technique designed for multiple-antenna assisted receivers employed in space-division multiple-access systems is investigated. We derive the optimal solution of the nonlinear spatial-proc...

    Authors: Sheng Chen, Lajos Hanzo and Andreas Wolfgang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:498791
  17. A novel direction of arrival (DOA) estimation technique that uses the conventional multiple-signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm with periodic signals is applied to a single-port smart antenna. Results show...

    Authors: Chen Sun and Nemai C. Karmakar
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:484138
  18. Authors: Andreas Czylwik, Alex B. Gershman and Thomas Kaiser
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:476724
  19. Experimental data are presented on the viability of multiple antennas on small mobile handsets, based on extensive measurement campaigns at 2.14 GHz with multiple base stations, indoors, from outdoor to indoor...

    Authors: Wim A. Th. Kotterman, Gert F. Pedersen and Kim Olesen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:401232
  20. We present a multiple antenna system for industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM)-band transmission (MASI). The hardware demonstrator was developed and realized at our institute. It enables multiple-input mul...

    Authors: J.. Rinas, R. Seeger, L. Brötje, S. Vogeler, T. Haase and K.-D. Kammeyer
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:370976
  21. There is an ongoing discussion in the broadband wireless world about the respective benefits of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and single carrier with frequency domain equalization (SC-FD). ...

    Authors: Jan Tubbax, Liesbet Van der Perre, Marc Engels, Hugo De Man and Marc Moonen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2004 2004:320840