ELG 5132 Smart Antennas
3 units
Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Wireless systems and their imitations. Introduction to propagation and antenna arrays. Concept of smart antenna; spatial processing; space-division multiple access. Types of smart antennas. Range and capacity improvement. Beamforming networks and algorithms. Direction-of-arrival estimation. Multiple-input multiple- output (MIMO) architecture: basic principles; capacity issues; performance analysis. Bell Lab Layered Space-Time (BLAST) algorithm. Space-time coding. Alamouti scheme. Spatio-temporal radio channels. Impact of correlation. Courses ELG 5132 , ELG 7178 (EACJ 5606) cannot be combined for units.
Components:
Lecture
Previously Offered Terms:
Fall