Smart Antennas with Two-Dimensional Array Configurations for Performance Enhancement of a Joint Detection CDMA Mobile Radio System

  • Authors:

  • Apostolos Papathanassiou;Ignasi Furió;Josef Johannes Blanz;Paul Walter Baier

  • Affiliations:

  • Research Group for RF Communications, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany E-mail: papa@rhrk.uni-kl.de;Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of the Balearic Islands, Crta Valldemossa km 7.5, E-07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain;Research Group for RF Communications, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany E-mail: papa@rhrk.uni-kl.de;Research Group for RF Communications, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany E-mail: papa@rhrk.uni-kl.de

  • Venue:
  • Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Smart antennas for base stations of cellular mobile radio systems offer the potential of system performance enhancement by taking advantage of the directionally inhomogeneous signal reception at the receiver. In this paper, two-dimensional array configurations employed at the uplink receiver of a joint detection CDMA (JD-CDMA) mobile radio system are investigated. This smart antenna concept can be split up into a novel channel estimator and data detector which incorporate explicitely the information of the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of signals emerging from users assigned to the considered base station. Proceeding from channel models that model the directional inhomogeneity of the mobile radio channel with single DOAs, the link level performance of a JD-CDMA mobile radio system using this smart antenna concept is evaluated for the rural propagation environment. The performance evaluation is based on Monte Carlo simulations of data transmission and average bit error rates versus the average signal to noise ratio per net information bit are presented for different array configurations. Although these results should be considered as upper bounds for the link level performance, they reveal the advantages of implementing two-dimensional array configurations at the uplink receiver of a JD-CDMA mobile radio system.