Description: a brief introduction to the concept and application of smart antennas for
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems is presented. Following some introductory
remarks in Section 1.1, the basic definition and classification of smart antennas is presented
in Section 1.2. Key system aspects influencing the performance of smart antennas
are also addressed in this section. The aims of this thesis are then identified in Section 1.3.
In light of the thesis aims, a literature survey is presented in Section 1.4 which forms the
basis of the work presented in this thesis and covers the topics of (i) interference rejection
capabilities of array antennas, (ii) channel modelling for smart antennas, (iii) performance
analysis of smart antennas for CDMA systems, (iv) adaptive beamforming algorithms for
smart antennas and (v) hybrid smart antenna applications. The main thesis contributions
are presented in Section 1.5. Finally, the thesis organisation is described in Section 1.6.
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