I. Introduction
Adaptive antennas can significantly improve the performance of wireless communication systems by suitably combining the received signals to reduce fading effects and suppress interference. In particular, with optimum combining (OC), the received signals are weighted and combined to maximize the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise power ratio (SINR). This technique provides substantial improvement in performance over maximal ratio combining (MRC), where the received signals are combined to maximize the desired signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) only, when interference is present.