Interference Mitigation on WLANs Using Smart Antennas

Authors:
F. Babich;M. Comisso;M. D'Orlando;L. Manià
Affiliations:
Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica ed Informatica, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy 34127;Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica ed Informatica, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy 34127;Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica ed Informatica, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy 34127;Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica ed Informatica, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy 34127
Venue:
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper investigates the performance of a fixed Wireless LAN in which nodes are equipped with fully adaptive smart antennas. The considered smart antenna system is a uniform circular array of microstrip patch elements in which the weights are updated using the unconstrained LMS algorithm. The behavior of a new directional MAC protocol for spatial multiplexing is analyzed and compared with IEEE 802.11 DCF. The paper purpose is the evaluation of interference and multipath effects on SDMA, using realistic models for the channel and for the smart antenna system. The link model takes into account path loss, cochannel interference and multipath, using a modified Jakes model. Results show that the performance of the WLAN are strictly dependent on the interferer characteristics and on the angular spread of the channel.