Smart antennas for 3G and future wireless communications : algorithms and implementations

The increasing demand for spectral efficiency and new services of the mobile communications systems motivate our quest for more powerful techniques. Exploiting spatial domain with smart antennas or adaptive arrays has gained great interest among researchers. The main goal of the thesis is to investigate algorithms for interference suppression and direction finding for smart antennas. We study the statc-of-art smart antenna technologies for both mobile stations (MSs) and base stations (BSs), and propose new solutions in responding to their limitations.DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (EEE