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TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Gaddi Blumrosen

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Table 2: The benefits of smart antennas techniques ([12])<br />

Feature Benefit<br />

Signal gain—Inputs from multiple<br />

antennas are combined to optimize<br />

available power required to<br />

establish given level of coverage.<br />

Interference rejection—Antenna<br />

pattern can be generated toward<br />

cochannel interference sources,<br />

improving the signal-to-interference<br />

ratio of the received signals.<br />

Spatial diversity—Composite<br />

information from the array is used<br />

to minimize fading and other<br />

undesirable effects of multi-path<br />

propagation.<br />

power efficiency—combines the<br />

inputs to multiple elements to<br />

optimize available processing gain<br />

in the downlink (toward the user)<br />

3.2 Beamforming<br />

3.2.1 Introduction<br />

Better range/coverage—Focusing the energy sent out<br />

into the cell increases base station range and coverage.<br />

Lower power requirements also enable a greater battery<br />

life and smaller/lighter handset size.<br />

Increased capacity—Precise control of signal nulls quality<br />

and mitigation of interference combine to frequency reuse<br />

reduce distance (or cluster size), improving capacity.<br />

Certain adaptive technologies (such as space division<br />

multiple access) support the reuse of frequencies within the<br />

same cell.<br />

Multi-path rejection—can reduce the effective delay<br />

spread of the channel, allowing higher bit rates to be<br />

supported without the use of an equalizer<br />

reduced expense—Lower amplifier costs, power<br />

consumption, and higher reliability will result.<br />

Beamforming (BF) utilizes transmitted and/or received signals phase and amplitude<br />

induced in each antenna in an antenna array, to form beams in different desired<br />

directions. BF can be seen as moving from antenna space to beam space by Fourier<br />

transform.<br />

There are two main ways for BF. The first one is with fixed beam patterns - the beams<br />

are fixed and predetermined and the transmitter can switch from one to another and is<br />

called Switched-Beam BF. The other way, non-fixed beam patterns, is obtained by<br />

continuous updating of antenna weights according to CSI knowledge and subscriber<br />

spatial distribution. By this way optimal BF can be achieved. When the beamforming<br />

weights are changed adaptively, it is called adaptive BF.<br />

We will start in 3.2.2 with a description of SVD based BF. On 3.2.3, we introduce<br />

MMSE based BF. BF methods performance is briefly discussed in 3.2.4. In 3.2.5, a<br />

physical perspective of BF is shown.

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