Blooming in data-communication applications is beyond all expectations. Smart antennas as now regarded as one of enabling technologies for next-generation wireless communication systems with its promised performance on enhancing network capacity. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the classes of smart antenna systems (SASs), including adaptive arrays, multibeam multiple-input-multiple-output (MB-MIMO) antennas, and diversity-antenna systems. This study also demonstrates practical examples of communication system with developed smart antennas, and shows that using smart antennas instead of traditional antennas highly improves the system performance.
Published in:
Proceedings of the IEEE
(Volume:100
,
Issue:
7
)
Date of Publication: July 2012