Performance Analysis of Analytical Approaches to Smart Antennas Modeling

This article presents the results of MATLAB based implementation of various analytical approaches to the modeling of planar smart antennas. These latter, which are found in the form of linear networks, square or circular, are often implemented in two stages: determining the directions of arrivals, followed by the beamforming over these directions. In the literature, many laboratories have implemented one or the other of these steps relying on either of these configurations. For our part, we present the results of both the first step and the second, over all these three types of configurations. In addition, we implement a host of methods to determine the one that best suits each antenna array. This has led us to develop a performance simulation tool of smart antennas by analytical approaches.