Downlink capacity improvement of WCDMA system by using adaptive antenna with novel MDPC beamforming technique

• Main Authors: Tiong, Sieh Keong, Koh, Johnny, Ismail, Mahamod, Hassan, Azmi
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Electronic Design, Test and Applications, Third IEEE International Workshop on 2006
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science; T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/37297/1/01581266.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/37297/; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1581266
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Smart antenna is a well known method to increase the spectral efficiency of the wireless channel and subsequently increase the mobile communication system capacity without jeopardizing the system QoS [1][2]. There are two major types of smart antenna systems; switch beam antenna and adaptive be...