Proposed WCDMA receiver structure based on smart antennas system.
Abstract: Smart antennas systems (SAS’s) have gained a lot of interest due to the explosive growth in demand for mobile communications in the last few years to overcome practical challenges in providing the service. The main benefit of the SAS technology lies in its ability to exploit the spatial domain, on top of the temporal and frequency domains, to improve the transceiver performance. Uniform Circular Arrays (UCA’s) are of interest because of their natural ability to provide a full azimuth (i.e.