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

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...

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Main Authors: Tiong, Sieh Keong, Koh, Johnny, Ismail, Mahamod, Hassan, Azmi
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Published: Electronic Design, Test and Applications, Third IEEE International Workshop on 2006
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spelling iium-372972014-07-11T02:21:10Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37297/ Downlink capacity improvement of WCDMA system by using adaptive antenna with novel MDPC beamforming technique Tiong, Sieh Keong Koh, Johnny Ismail, Mahamod Hassan, Azmi QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology (General) 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 beam antenna. Adaptive antenna which has dynamic beam to cater for users needs is better in improving the system capacity but requires more advance beam forming algorithm and requires intensive processing power for beam forming. Thus, adaptive beam forming technique is critically important. In this paper, a novel adaptive downlink beam forming technique for WCDMA system namely Minimum Downlink Power Consumption (MDPC) is introduced. A dynamic radio network simulator was developed in Visual C++® to study the power consumption at WCDMA base station (Node B) and to estimate the downlink capacity improvement by implementing this novel algorithm. Simulation was done based on a single micro cell environment with consideration of interference from the first tier. User mobility is taken into account to provide a combined evaluation of Radio Resource Management (RRM). Capacity system expressed in downlink outage under various simulation scenarios was represented in this paper. Electronic Design, Test and Applications, Third IEEE International Workshop on 2006-01-17 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37297/1/01581266.pdf Tiong, Sieh Keong and Koh, Johnny and Ismail, Mahamod and Hassan, Azmi (2006) Downlink capacity improvement of WCDMA system by using adaptive antenna with novel MDPC beamforming technique. In: Third IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications, 2006. DELTA 2006. , 17-19 Jan. 2006 , Kuala Lumpur. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1581266 DOI: 10.1109/DELTA.2006.38
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topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
T Technology (General)
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T Technology (General)
Tiong, Sieh Keong
Koh, Johnny
Ismail, Mahamod
Hassan, Azmi
Downlink capacity improvement of WCDMA system by using adaptive antenna with novel MDPC beamforming technique
description 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 beam antenna. Adaptive antenna which has dynamic beam to cater for users needs is better in improving the system capacity but requires more advance beam forming algorithm and requires intensive processing power for beam forming. Thus, adaptive beam forming technique is critically important. In this paper, a novel adaptive downlink beam forming technique for WCDMA system namely Minimum Downlink Power Consumption (MDPC) is introduced. A dynamic radio network simulator was developed in Visual C++® to study the power consumption at WCDMA base station (Node B) and to estimate the downlink capacity improvement by implementing this novel algorithm. Simulation was done based on a single micro cell environment with consideration of interference from the first tier. User mobility is taken into account to provide a combined evaluation of Radio Resource Management (RRM). Capacity system expressed in downlink outage under various simulation scenarios was represented in this paper.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Tiong, Sieh Keong
Koh, Johnny
Ismail, Mahamod
Hassan, Azmi
author_facet Tiong, Sieh Keong
Koh, Johnny
Ismail, Mahamod
Hassan, Azmi
author_sort Tiong, Sieh Keong
title Downlink capacity improvement of WCDMA system by using adaptive antenna with novel MDPC beamforming technique
title_short Downlink capacity improvement of WCDMA system by using adaptive antenna with novel MDPC beamforming technique
title_full Downlink capacity improvement of WCDMA system by using adaptive antenna with novel MDPC beamforming technique
title_fullStr Downlink capacity improvement of WCDMA system by using adaptive antenna with novel MDPC beamforming technique
title_full_unstemmed Downlink capacity improvement of WCDMA system by using adaptive antenna with novel MDPC beamforming technique
title_sort downlink capacity improvement of wcdma system by using adaptive antenna with novel mdpc beamforming technique
publisher Electronic Design, Test and Applications, Third IEEE International Workshop on
publishDate 2006
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