Abstract: Future
wireless systems will require higher data rates with better coverage for a wide
variety of users operating with a large variety of different systems. To achieve these goals, greater power,
interference suppression, and multipath mitigation are needed.
Smart antenna gives a promising future for wireless communication systems since
it can improve the capacity, extend coverage and provide better quality
services by tracking users, switching beams accordingly. In this paper three
non-blind adaptive beamforming algorithms, least mean
square (LMS), Recursive Least square (RLS) and Sample matrix inversion (SMI)
have been studied. Investigation of their performances in tracking a desired user
has been made and compared. All the three algorithms direct their beams towards
a desired user and place nulls towards interferer. However the rate of their
performance differs from each other.
Keywords: Non-blind adaptive algorithms, beamforming, LMS, RLS, SMI, Desired user, desired signal