a brief introduction to the concept and application of smart antennas for

Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems is presented. Following some introductory

remarks in Section 1.1, the basic definition and classification of smart antennas is presented

in Section 1.2. Key system aspects influencing the performance of smart antennas

are also addressed in this section. The aims of this thesis are then identified in Section 1.3.

In light of the thesis aims, a literature survey is presented in Section 1.4 which forms the

basis of the work presented in this thesis and covers the topics of (i) interference rejection

capabilities of array antennas, (ii) channel modelling for smart antennas, (iii) performance

analysis of smart antennas for CDMA systems, (iv) adaptive beamforming algorithms for

smart antennas and (v) hybrid smart antenna applications. The main thesis contributions

are presented in Section 1.5. Finally, the thesis organisation is described in Section 1.6.