System Level Performance Analysis of Advanced Antenna ... - Centers

Introduction
UEs is presented in order to validate the trends observed in simulations. In order to obtain the
results included in this chapter, the author has utilised the same dynamic simulation platform
that was used in Chapter 4. For this purpose, the author designed and added the support for
multiple antenna Rake receivers at the UE in the aforementioned simulation tool.
Chapter 6 shifts the focus of the study towards HSDPA. The capacity gain from
deploying open and closed loop transmit diversity, and/or antenna receive diversity at the UEs
is evaluated under different PS algorithms. In this case, the interaction between the antenna
diversity and the multi-user diversity made available by fast quality based PS is of paramount
importance. The results included in this chapter have been obtained with a dynamic HSDPA
network simulator that was entirely developed by the author.
Chapter 7 summarises the thesis report and highlights the main conclusions of each
chapter.
The reader of this Ph.D. thesis is expected to have a basic knowledge about system level
aspects of UMTS and radio propagation. In principle, the different chapters can be read
independently, although there are some cross-references between chapters. Citations are given
by a number in square brackets, referring to a section placed at the end of the thesis, which
contains the corresponding references. All the abbreviations are introduced in each chapter,
and a list summarising the meaning of all of them is included at the beginning of the thesis.
1.6 Publications
The following articles have been published during the Ph.D. study:
• J. Ramiro-Moreno, K.I. Pedersen, P.E. Mogensen, "Directional power based
admission control for WCDMA systems using antenna arrays", IEEE Proc. 53 rd
Vehicular Technology Conference, Vol. 1, pp. 53-57, May 2001.
• J. Ramiro-Moreno, K.I. Pedersen, P.E. Mogensen, “Network performance of
WCDMA base stations deploying smart antennas”, Proceedings of the WPMC-01,
Vol. 2, pp. 1027-1032, September 2001.
• J. Ramiro-Moreno, K.I. Pedersen, P.E. Mogensen, "Radio resource management for
WCDMA networks supporting dual antenna terminals", IEEE Proc. 55 th Vehicular
Technology Conference, Vol. 2, pp. 694-698, May 2002.
• J. Ramiro-Moreno, K.I. Pedersen, P.E. Mogensen, "Network performance of transmit
and receive antenna diversity in HSDPA under different packet scheduling
strategies", IEEE Proc. 57 th Vehicular Technology Conference, Vol. 2, pp. 1454-
1458, April 2003.
• J. Ramiro-Moreno, K.I. Pedersen, P.E. Mogensen, "Capacity gain of beamforming
techniques in a WCDMA system under channelization code constraints", accepted
for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, May 2003.
In addition, the following articles were co-authored during the Ph.D. study:
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