Effect of mutual coupling on the interference rejection capabilities of linear and circular arrays in CDMA systems

Salman Durrani*, Marek E. Bialkowski

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with assessing the interference rejection capabilities of linear and circular array of dipoles that can be part of a base station of a code-division multiple-access cellular communication system. The performance criteria for signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) improvement employed in this paper is the spatial interference suppression coefficient. We first derive an expression for this figure of merit and then analyze and compare the SIR performance of the two types of arrays. For a linear array, we quantitatively assess the degradation in SIR performance as we move from array broadside to array end-fire direction. In addition, the effect of mutual coupling is taken into account.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1130-1134
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume52
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2004
Externally publishedYes

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