Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the effect of correlations among the fading signals at the antenna elements of an adaptive array in a digital wireless communication system. With an adaptive array, the signals received by multiple antennas are optimally weighted and combined to suppress interference and combat desired signal fading. Previous results for flat and frequency-selective fading assumed independent fading at each antenna. Here, we present a model of local scattering around a mobile where the received multipath signals arrive at the base station within a given beamwidth, and derive a closed-form expression for the correlation as a function of antenna spacing. Results show that the degradation in performance with correlation in an adaptive array that combats fading and suppresses interference is only slightly larger than that for combating fading alone, i.e., with maximal ratio combining. This degradation is small even with correlation as high as 0.5.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Keywords
FadingMultipath propagationFading distributionBeamwidthAntenna arrayAntenna (radio)Electronic engineeringBase stationComputer scienceEngineeringTelecommunicationsRayleigh fading
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- 43
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- 4
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- 1049-1057
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J. Salz,
J.H. Winters
(1994).
Effect of fading correlation on adaptive arrays in digital mobile radio.
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
, 43
(4)
, 1049-1057.
https://doi.org/10.1109/25.330168
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- 10.1109/25.330168