ASILUM: A platform to evaluate advanced combinations of smart antennas and multi-user detection for UMTS FDD and TDD

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present and explain some results of ASILUM, a project included into IST (Information Society Technologies), a research programme of European Community. This project aims to contribute to the technical innovation and policies of the European Community by validating new transceivers concepts to increase the capacity of UMTS (FDD and TDD modes) through new and efficient interference mitigation schemes. These schemes are jointly using smart antennas and multiuser detection. They have been validated through link and system level simulations.