The article provides an overview of Smart Antenna technology in wireless LAN systems.Since Smart Antenna technology has powerful spatial processing ability
it is regarded as a promising solution to enhancing the data rates and capacity of wireless LAN systems.This article discusses the switched beam based
the adaptive array based and Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output based wireless LAN systems and their relevant key technologies.A set of small size
practical switched beam antenna system
well suited for IEEE 802.11b Standard
is designed and tested.The antenna system has 9dB gain and can be applied to the wireless Access Point.Based on the testing results