Side Lobes Suppressing Algorithms for Eight Elements Linear Uniform Array Antenna

Abstract

Nowadays the intense use of mobile smartphones, tablets, and laptops involves cutting-edge wireless technologies that require LTE advance or WLAN MIMO systems. With this ongoing increase of the IT domain, the antenna has to evolve as well toward smarter array systems to decrease the computational complexity especially at the user terminal (eNodeB). The current paper investigates some affordable yet efficient techniques that could suppress the side lobes for an array of eight elements, operating an advanced LTE base station. In this respect, a set of MATLAB functions computing the weighting coefficients and deliver their values (as RF gains) to the HFSS modeler for a more realistic evaluation.

Keywords

• LTE-Long Term Evolution
• ULA-Uniform Linear Array
• Smart Antenna
• MIMO-Multiple Input Multiple Output
• HFSS-High Frequency Structure Simulator
• Phase Array Antenna