Beamforming technology has been widely used in smart antenna systems that can increase the user's capacity and coverage in modern communication products. In this study, a powerful reduced symmetric self-constructing fuzzy neural network (RS-SCFNN) beamforming detector is proposed for multi-antenna-assisted systems. A novel training algorithm for the RS-SCFNN beamformer is proposed based on clustering of array input vectors and an adaptive minimum bit-error rate method. An inherent symmetric property of the array input signal space is exploited to make training procedure of RS-SCFNN more efficient than that of standard SCFNN. In addition, the required amount of fuzzy rules can be greatly reduced in the RS-SCFNN structure. Simulation results demonstrate that RS-SCFNN beamformer provides superior performance to the classical linear ones and the other non-linear ones (including symmetric radial basis function, SCFNN and S-SCFNN), especially when supporting a large amount of users in the rank-deficient multi-antenna-assisted system.
