Efeitos de acoplamento e de banda de operação em redes de antenas adaptativas reais. / Coupling and operation bandwidth effects in real adaptive antenna arrays.
AUTOR(ES)
Eduardo Barbosa Perri
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2005
RESUMO
Smart antenna arrays are becoming more important in the expansion and in the enhancement of cellular telephony systems, specially in the third-generation that will need an even larger bandwidth. In this subject, many contributions from the scientific community have been provided with the goal of determining direction-of-arrival for incident signals, eliminating interference between different signals and of synthesizing desired radiation patterns. On most cases, however, the antennas employed in the simulations are ideal antennas, where one disregards the mutual coupling effects between each pair of elements. In this work, the impact of using real antennas in the behavior of smart antenna systems is analyzed through numerical simulations, taking into account intrinsic features such as mutual coupling and real radiation patterns of its elements. On top of that, solutions are proposed for the utilization of real antenna arrays through methods and procedures that may contribute to a better precision and reliability of the related results. In this sense, it is initially presented an adaptive process method that leads to a solution for downlink beamforming in cellular systems, using a transformation of the real array into an ideal array. The dependence of convergence speed and errors on the choice of the ideal array geometry is also investigated. Next, a new array configuration with reduced mutual coupling is presented, and improvements in characteristics such as secondary lobe level and direction-of-arrival determination precision on smart antenna arrays are investigated.
ASSUNTO(S)
processamento digital de sinais adaptive filters antennas digital signal processing filtros elétricos adaptativos antenas
