Beamforming Showing Effect on BER with Change in Antenna Configuration

This work investigates the improvement in Bit Error Rate (BER) with different antenna configuration using beamforming technique. In this paper Linearly Constrained Minimum Variance (LCMV) beamforming is used and based on this BER graph is plotted. The idea is to show improvement in BER performance with increasing number of antenna and also to show that the data rate can be increased if BER is brought to a lower value. In this paper antenna configuration with linear array of 5,7 and 9 elements are shown.

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