BER performance analysis of a UWB wireless communication system with smart antenna

Abstract

This paper presents an analytical approach to evaluate bit error rate performance and SINR improvement of an UWB communication system with a smart antenna. The BER performance results are evaluated numerically for various values of antenna parameters like number of antenna elements and number of delays in the tapped delay line. Experimental results demonstrate that there is improvement in receiver sensitivity (SINR) with increase in antenna elements in the smart array but no improvement in the performance with the number of delays in the TDL line.