Smart antenna spatial sweeping for combined directionality and transmit diversity

Journal of Communications and Networks

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 325-330

  Zekavat, Seyed Alireza ^a   Nassar, Carl R ^a   Shattil, Steve ^b  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^b Idris Communications   (United States)

Author keywords

Directionality; Scanning beam pattern; Smart antenna; Time diversity; Transmit diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001109643     PISSN: 12292370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JCN.2000.6596766     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. J. G. Proakis, Digital Communications, 3rd Ed., McGraw-Hill, 1995.
2. N. Seshadri and J. H. Winters, "Two signaling schemes for improving the error performance of frequency division-duplex transmission system using transmitter antenna diversity," Int. Journal Wireless Info. Networks, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 49-60, Jan. 1994.
3. J. H. Winters, "The diversity gain of transmit diversity in wireless systems with Rayleigh fading," in Proc. of the 1994 ICC/SUPERCOMM, New Orleans, vol. 2, May 1994, pp. 1121-1125.
4. H. Olofsson, M. Almgren, and M. Hookin, "Transmitter diversity with antenna hopping for wireless communication systems," in Proc. IEEE VTC, Phoenix, AZ, vol. 3, May 1997, pp. 1743-1747.
5. R. W. Heath Jr. and A. Paulraj, "Transmit diversity using decision-directed antenna hopping," in Proc. IEEE Communications Mini-Conference, June 1999, pp. 141-145.
6. A. Hiroike, F. Adachi, and N. Nakajima, "Combined effects of phase sweeping transmitter diversity and channel coding," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 41, no. 2, May 1992.
7. V. Tarokh, N. Seshadri, and A. R. Calderbank, "Space-time codes for high data rate construction," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 744-765, Mar. 1998.
8. S. A. Alamouti, V. Tarokh, and P. Poon, "Trellis-coded modulation and transmit diversity: Design criteria and performance evaluation," in Proc. IEEE, 1998 International Conf. on Universal Personal Communications.
9. O. Nørklit, P. C. F. Eggers, and J.B. Andersen, "Jitter diversity in multipath environments," in Proc. VTC'95, vol. 3, 1995, pp. 853-857.
10. O. Nørklit and J.B. Andersen, "Mobile radio environments and adaptive arrays," in Proc. IEEE PIMRC. Wireless Networks - Catching the Mobile Future, 1994, pp. 725-728.
11. J. D. Gibson, Mobile Communication Hand Book. 2nd Ed., IEEE press, 1999.