Beamforming and interference canceling with very large wideband arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1338-1346

  Ellingson, Steven W ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Interference suppression; Radio astronomy

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DOPPLER EFFECT; GAIN MEASUREMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIO TELESCOPES; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

BEAMFORMING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0037707260     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.812237     Document Type: Article

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